Bipartisan Push For Covid 19 Relief Aims To Help Minority Businesses
The legislation was first introduced in May by New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat, and co-sponsored by Montana Senator Steve Daines, a Republican. It would inject $50 billion in federal money to cities and rural communities to dole out to small businesses in need. The legislation was rolled out with 100 mayors on board, who prefer the flexibility the setup provides. But now Daines is stepping up his push of the bill—Daines has been giving interviews in recent weeks on how it would help small businesses in Montana—amid his bruising election fight against Democratic Governor Steve Bullock, who a recent University of Montana poll showed leading at 47 percent to Daines’s 43 percent....