Restaurant relief: $25 billion grant program will go in COVID-19 bill
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 2: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) attends a press conference after a meeting with Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on February 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Drew Angerer/Getty
WASHINGTON Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer s plan for $25 billion in grants for struggling restaurants will be included in the COVID-19 relief bill that Congress is preparing to pass in the next few weeks. Restaurants and bars, like our arts venues, are the places that suffered the most because when people can t go out, they don t go to restaurants, Schumer, D-N.Y., told the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce on Friday. They need special help, not just the small business help. . It s one of my very highest priorities.
$25 billion restaurant relief program will go in federal Covid bill
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
By Emilie Munson | Times Union, Albany
Washington Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer’s plan for $25 billion in grants for struggling restaurants will be included in the Covid-19 relief bill that Congress is preparing to pass in the next few weeks.
“Restaurants and bars, like our arts venues, are the places that suffered the most because when people can’t go out, they don’t go to restaurants,” Schumer, D- N.Y., told the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce on Friday. “They need special help, not just the small business help. . It’s one of my very highest priorities.”
COVID relief bill to include $25 billion in grants for restaurants
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
By Emilie Munson | Times Union, Albany
Washington Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer’s plan for $25 billion in grants for struggling restaurants will be included in the Covid-19 relief bill that Congress is preparing to pass in the next few weeks.
“Restaurants and bars, like our arts venues, are the places that suffered the most because when people can’t go out, they don’t go to restaurants,” Schumer, D- N.Y., told the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce on Friday. “They need special help, not just the small business help. . It’s one of my very highest priorities.”
A bartender at the Savoy Taproom in Albany mixes a drink. Photo: Karen DeWitt
Jan 27, 2021 Governor Andrew Cuomo, saying the COVID-19 rate in New York has begun declining, is lifting some restrictions in nearly all orange and yellow micro cluster zones that were aimed at controlling the spread of the virus. He is also developing a plan to allow limited indoor dining in New York City.
The micro cluster hot zones were developed by Cuomo and his aides last fall, as an attempt to contain the further spread of the coronavirus. But in recent months, businesses in areas designated as yellow or orange zones complained that they had to endure more restrictions than other areas where the positivity rate for the virus was even higher.