Posted on 12/21/2020 2:20:01 PM PST by conservative98
WASHINGTON — New York is expected to receive $54 billion in emergency coronavirus relief to help its staggering economy once Congress passes a long-awaited $900 billion aid package later Monday, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer told The Post.
The deal will include $20 billion in small business loans, $9 billion in $600 direct cash payments, $6.4 billion for enhanced unemployment benefits, $4.2 billion for the cash-strapped Metropolitan Transit Authority, $4 billion for the state’s public schools and $1.3 for emergency rental assistance, his office said.
While the package will be an urgently needed shot in the arm for the state that has suffered the highest COVID-19 death rate, Schumer (D-NY) admitted it didn’t go far enough.
“It’s not enough but it deals with the emergency,” Schumer told The Post ahead of a vote on the bill later Monday.
“There’s $4 billion for mass transit, which is what the MTA said they needed to avoid significant cutbacks, and there’s going to be significant money for schools,” he continued.
“I hope we can get a bigger, stronger bill in a few months with a new president. This bill, you know, is sort of a bridge until we get a bigger bill and the vaccine,” he said.
Another $15 billion in the federal “Save Our Stages” provision, spearheaded by Schumer, will support Broadway and other comedy halls, music venues and cultural institutions around the country.
In a tweet Monday, comedian Jerry Seinfeld thanked Schumer and shared a photo of them on stage at the Gotham Comedy Club in September.
“Thanks @SenSchumer for getting SAVE OUR STAGES in the COVID relief bill. I got to help a tiny bit. Politics is much easier than I thought. Let’s keep fixing things!”
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HELL NO.
Hell! That will only pay off his bookies.
He needs money to pay off the union leadership for their stuffing the ballot boxes with votes from dead people that he Cuomo killed in all those nursing homes.
WOW. Now we know what is important. Big government and big hollywood (save our stages). While the business owner gets pissed on again.
Tens of billions of dollars was given to foreign countries in the COVID bill - should have given it to Americans instead.
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