Schumer: Paycheck Protection Program delayed to get loans for minority groups and rural areas

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer touted how minority communities and rural areas will receive aid via provisions added to the Paycheck Protection Program in response to a claim that Democrats are holding up funding for small businesses. Schumer joined CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday and responded to a statement from the former administrator of the Small Business Administration, Karen Mills, who said: “Complexity is not our friend here … things that have to be implemented quickly can’t have a lot of bells and whistles or else there will be too many unintended consequences — one of which is delay. And we don’t have time for delay.” Schumer responded: “Well, I'd actually say the very things that we Democrats have been fighting for are now going into the bill. If you had a connection with a bank, it was pretty easy to get a loan. If you didn’t, from one end of the country to the other, we have been hearing that people can’t get the loans. The local restaurant, the local barbershop, the local drug store, or even startup businesses, manufacturing, or … services that aren’t happening.” “So we Democrats said, ‘Yes, we want to put more money in [for small business financial relief], but let’s set aside some money to make sure it goes to the rural areas, to the minority areas, to the unbanked.' And the $60 billion for the disaster loan was our proposal, and now the [Trump] administration is going along with that,” he added.

The PPP was established as part of the $2.3 trillion CARES Act created to offset the economic consequences of COVID-19, but it ran dry of funds last week. Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, claim Democrats are to blame for the holdup on getting additional funds to small businesses. “Name me one productive thing Speaker Pelosi has accomplished in this pandemic,” McCarthy said Monday on Fox & Friends. “When President Trump on Jan. 31 put in the ban from China, Feb. 24, she asked people to gather together in San Francisco. She actually fought the ban. When we wanted to put the CARES Act together, she came in, held it up. Now we had a small business program working. She’s now held up the money.”

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'What the hell is going on?': Devin Nunes rips Pelosi for showing off freezer full of ice cream

California Rep. Devin Nunes criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for showing off her freezer full of ice cream as U.S. citizens struggle amid the coronavirus pandemic. Pelosi joined comedian James Corden on his late-night show last week during which the camera showed more than a dozen containers of ice cream in her freezer. "I don't know what I would've done if ice cream were not invented," the California Democrat said in the interview.

Nunes joined Fox & Friends Weekend and claimed that if a Republican had done the same as Pelosi, they would be pulled from leadership. "If any Republican leader, if [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell or [House Minority Leader] Kevin McCarthy or any of our speakers in the past would have said, done something like Pelosi did, where she's sitting at home in front of her refrigerator with a $24,000, ya know, freezer that I don't think too many of us have … it would be a fatal flaw," Nunes said. "We would boot McConnell or McCarthy out of leadership just like that. They would have been out four days ago, the minute that that popped up." He added: "When you have … 20 million people unemployed and you have people that can't get paychecks. … What the hell is going on? And you know, she's sitting in San Francisco eating gourmet ice cream? It doesn't fly out in the real world.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/what-the-hell-is-going-on-devin-nunes-rips-pelosi-for-showing-off-freezer-full-of-ice-cream

https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1250080704446238725

>>8864204

Isn't interesting that while the CDC is preaching to the public at large on cleanliness that they can't even keep their own environment uncontaminated.

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>>8864267

Needs to be a Meme, kek with her face all over it.