House Passes and President Signs Additional Funding for Coronavirus Response | Congressman Lee Zeldin

House Passes and President Signs Additional Funding for Coronavirus Response

April 24, 2020
Press Release

WASHINGTON - Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1), member of the bipartisan White House Opening Up America Again Congressional Group and bipartisan Congressional Coronavirus Task Force, issued the following statement after the House passed and President signed the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (Senate Amendment to H.R. 266):

“As one of the areas hardest hit by coronavirus, Long Island’s healthcare workers are in desperate need of this funding to continue the fight on the ground, our shuttered small businesses need this vital lifeline to survive and by investing in coronavirus testing, we can carefully advance towards reopening our economy,” said Congressman Zeldin. “This small business funding should have never been allowed to lapse, and I hope that Congress  will continue to work together going forward in a non-partisan way. On Long Island, this is about survival, and we must deliver additional critical priorities such as funding for state and local governments hardest hit by this outbreak as we consider a Phase 4 coronavirus response bill.”

The Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act provides:

  • $310 billion in funding for the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP);

  • $60 billion in funding for the Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDL);

  • $25 billion for testing research, manufacturing, procurement and administration;

  • $75 billion in reimbursements to hospitals for coronavirus related costs;

  • $825 million in additional funding for Community Health Centers (CHC).