Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is expected to schedule a vote for next week on replenishing the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF), the grant program that left 177,000 restaurant applicants without aid after distributing $28.6 billion in three weeks.
The bill, backed by the powerful Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), would allocate an additional $40 billion in funding specifically for restaurants, with another $8 billion earmarked for other businesses that were hit particularly hard by the pandemic. Those other enterprises include gyms and minor-league sports teams…