By Scott Benjamin Republican congressional hopeful David X. Sullivan says the Democratic U.S. House majority has stymied efforts to help revive small businesses that have been forced to close operations during the pandemic. Sullivan, a retired Assistant U.S. Attorney and the apparent front-runner for the GOP nomination in the Fifth District, criticized incumbent Democrat Jahana Hayes of Wolcott and the rest of her caucus for impeding approval of the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses by arguing for spending on other important components that could be ratified in smaller, separate bills a short time later. “You can’t order businesses across the district, state and nation to close – and then refuse them the money they need to help afford the losses that you created,” he stated in a news release. Sullivan, who lives in New Fairfield, added that the Democrats are “doing nothing to allocate urgently needed money to supplement the oversubscribed and already depleted SBA [Small Business Administration] emergency loan program.” The New York Times reported that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business. has stated that “700,000 small-business applications are in limbo and no new loans will be made until the… Read full this story
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