22 Regional & State Motorcoach/Bus Associations co-signed a letter to @SenSchumer@SpeakerPelosi @GOPLeader @LeaderMcConnell requesting additional help to the tune of $6B. Read the letter below. #gnjma
22 Regional & State Motorcoach/Bus Associations co-signed a letter to @SenSchumer@SpeakerPelosi @GOPLeader @LeaderMcConnell requesting additional help to the tune of $6B. Read the letter below. #pabus
1,300 bus & passenger vessel companies—including 11 in Maine—received $1.6 billion in COVID-19 relief. @SenJackReed & I authored this grant program, which will help these businesses weather the economic downturn that hit their industries especially hard.
How do we know these nuns aren't Antifa? Why are these nuns being so divisive by standing up for things Jesus talked about? Why aren't these nuns behaving like the tax exempt Republican propaganda machine @EWTN? Why wasn't Lou Holtz given two congressional medals of freedumb?
Facebook and Twitter giving Trump a little time out is NOT ENOUGH.
Trump instigated an act of domestic terrorism against America.
Facebook and Twitter have banned other extremists PERMANENTLY.
They must ban Trump PERMANENTLY. NOW!
#BanTrumpSaveDemocracy
We are operating at 10% capacity. If we fail it will have potential long-term damage to an essential transport method for millions of lower-income Americans. @senatemajldr @SenSchumer@JoeBiden@KamalaHarris@SpeakerPelosi @GOPLeader
The motorcoach/private bus industry is a good example of how much lobbying power shaped the relief bill (and every bill).
In 2020, the industry has been absolutely decimated. Close to 500 companies have shuttered in 2020 alone. Hundreds of thousands of jobs lost.
Hardly any support to bail out the motorcoach industry, which plays an integral role in bailing out the US in times of need. Do airlines move our citizens out of harm's way?
@samjmintz @alicianzapanta Also... the 3,000 motorcoach companies don’t have access to the capital markets. AND the airlines have enough cash on their balance sheets to last 12+ mos even at their current run rates. These bus companies are on the brink of closure.
.@tammybaldwin@MarkPocan allowing Transit and DOT to take our funds when we have received ZERO and have never asked for assistance before is frustrating. You will authorize more for them each year, but you turned your back on small family owned businesses.
Looks like state/local funding IS included in the package... $6B swooped from small family business that haven’t gotten any relief since March. More furloughs than the airlines!
.@tammybaldwin@MarkPocan $2B May be a big number, but not going to save an industry that’s lost over $10B. Small/family Biz will be closing & 85k+ jobs lost. Military, schools, & YOU will be affected when you need a bus on your campaign. Sad day for those of us who move America
@samjmintz@seth_barnburner@Bencjacobs The companies that take kids to school, move our military and respond to FEMA emergencies... in addition to weddings, athletics and fun stuff. An essential industry per @DHSgov