{"id":1194127,"date":"2022-01-06T13:21:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194127"},"modified":"2022-01-06T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:21:09","slug":"congress-explores-covid-business-relief-amid-omicron-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-explores-covid-business-relief-amid-omicron-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress explores COVID business relief amid Omicron panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongress-explores-covid-business-relief-amid-omicron-panic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194127&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2628354\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2628354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2628354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/restaurant-1000x667-1.jpg\" alt=\"Passersby walk past an empty restaurant in September in Boston. (Steven Senne\/AP)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/restaurant-1000x667-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/restaurant-1000x667-315x210.jpg 315w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/restaurant-1000x667-655x437.jpg 655w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/restaurant-1000x667-768x512.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2628354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passersby walk past an empty restaurant in September in Boston. (Steven Senne\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:20 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, January 6, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>Congress is exploring new COVID-19 relief programs for small businesses amid renewed pandemic worries. On Wednesday, officials said Republican Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) are crafting a measure aimed at supplying restaurants with additional federal aid.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first rule of government should always be \u201cdo no harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last spring, Democrats broke that rule, leading to the highest inflation in nearly 40 years. <\/p>\n<p>Any new COVID relief should be carefully targeted to meet genuine needs.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WickerReport?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WickerReport<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zOrSXqX54n\">https:\/\/t.co\/zOrSXqX54n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Roger Wicker (@SenatorWicker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorWicker\/status\/1478365605061406726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes as speculation of yet another lockdown grows amid a surge of the highly contagious, but reportedly mild, Omicron variant. During Wednesday\u2019s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked about the possibility of a new relief package for the food and beverage industry.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cWell as you know, we did a major relief package that included restaurants just last year,\u201d she explained. \u201cWe are in constant discussions with Congress and leadership about the needs of the American people \u2014 whether they are small businesses or restaurants or people sitting in their homes \u2014 as we continue to fight the pandemic, but don\u2019t have any new prediction or new pending requests or specific requests and wouldn\u2019t predict that at this moment in time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The White House maintains it has the resources to respond to any disruptions caused by the latest variant, however, it remains unclear what these disruptions could be.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/trump-says-nation-has-lost-confidence-as-poll-shows-60-of-americans-see-biden-as-weak-leader\/\">Trump Says Nation Has Lost Confidence As Poll Shows 60% Of Americans See Biden As \u2018Weak Leader\u2019<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passersby walk past &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}