Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., defended his party on Friday as MSNBC anchor Willie Geist pressed him on Democrats’ reluctance to approve relief for small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Senator Schumer, as you just laid out, that PPP [paycheck protection] program has run out of its $350 billion worth of funds,” Geist said on “Morning Joe.”
“There’s that $250 billion legislation proposed to get that money to small businesses right now. It looks to a lot of small business owners who are waiting for the checks, who actually have had loans approved but [are] now hearing from their banks there’s no money left in the fund […] Like you all, the Democrats, are standing in the way of that because you want to negotiate another piece for hospitals and state and local governments.”
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