Treasury Department prepares to seek more than $200 billion to replenish small business coronavirus program
to make a formal request for additional funds ASAP & with Senate leadership to get fast track vote ASAP.That Treasury would make the request on Day Three of the program’s existence underscores the surging demand for businesses to obtain financing as many of them struggle to avoid closing. The small business program has ramped up more quickly than other elements of the rescue bill -- including unemployment insurance and payments to individual -- but demand has still outstripped expectations.
Businesses with fewer than 500 employees are eligible for loans of up to $10 million. The loans will be forgiven, meaning business owners won’t have to pay them back, if they meet certain conditions, including using 75 percent of the money to retain or rehire employees.Bank of America said Monday that it had received 178,000 applications from firms seeking $32.9 billion in loans as companies clamor to qualify for the $349 billion Small Business Administration program.
Wells Fargo didn’t begin taking applications until Saturday and by Monday morning said it had reached the $10 billion cap it had set for loans under the program. To deal with the crushing demand, the Federal Reserve launched a system for banks to offload these assets so they could originate more loans.
Democrats and Republicans have commented in recent days that the $349 billion program would likely need to be expanded, but, such as more unemployment insurance benefits for laid off workers. Schumer and other Democratic senators on Tuesday announced a push for hazard pay equivalent to $25,000 yearly for workers who have been forced to remain on the job during the pandemic, and they could try to use the GOP demand for small business funding as leverage to include it in the next rescue bill.
Demand for the Payroll Protection Program I co-authored, which provides forgivable loans so small businesses can survive and send paychecks to their employees, is so strong that I have urged the White House and my colleagues to prepare to increase the funding.This program is supposed to encourage small businesses to stop laying off employees, after 10 million workers sought unemployment claims late last month.
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