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Senator Chuck Schumer Explains the Restaurant Bailout Package

Eater's Digest

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4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Senator Chuck Schumer calls in to talk about working closely with the Independent Restaurant Coalition to pass a $28.6 billion grant program for independent restaurants and bars in the American Rescue Plan. Get in touch with the hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater [email protected] More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.

0:09.0

Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.

0:15.0

But here's the thing about kingdoms.

0:17.0

They don't last forever.

0:18.0

To survive, Disney had to grow.

0:21.0

But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.

0:24.3

And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe

0:29.6

Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.

0:35.0

Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. Hi everyone and welcome to Eaters Digest to show about all things food and dining. I'm Amanda Clute

0:53.2

editor and chief of Eder. And my name is Daniel Janine. I am a producer at Eder.

0:59.7

Amanda, we have a sizable show for you today.

1:03.0

Yes, this week on the show we have majority leader Chuck Schumer to talk about the recent stimulus package and what it means for restaurant owners and

1:13.0

workers and I guess restaurant lovers as well.

1:15.0

For those who don't know Congress just passed a 1.9 trillion

1:18.0

stimulus bill that includes 28.6 billion dollars in full grants for food businesses, which is something the

1:26.7

industry's been lobbying for for a long time since the beginning of the

1:29.6

pandemic and many people, well pretty much everyone in the restaurant industry, consider a massive win.

1:36.6

And then we are going to talk about some fun online controversies as we always do, but without, you know, we might as well just get into it. Here is

1:46.0

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Calling live from what I think is the floor of the

1:51.4

Senate. Or his office. He of the Senate or his office.

1:54.0

He probably went back to his office.

1:55.0

Yeah, well, yeah, well, you never know.

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