COVID-19 relief bill includes $15 billion for Broadway, small music venues, movie theaters

That help, dubbed the Save Our Stages Act, is part of Congress’s $900 billion COVID-19 relief package announced Sunday. As of midday Monday, lawmakers were racing to finalize the legislative text to send it to President Trump’s desk before government funding lapses at midnight. The money set aside for the Save Our Stages Act would assist live music and theater venues, independent movie theaters, and other cultural institutions.

Congress COVID-19 relief bill includes $15 billion for Broadway, small music venues, movie theaters

Jordan Levinson said: "I'm not even sure he'll pass this as long as he is in office. At the very least he is advocating forhigher direct payments."

He's not really advocating for higher payments, he's trying to make Mitch and the rest of the now "traitorous" Republican Senators squirm. If the direct payment had been higher in the bill that was being sent to him then he would scream about how it was too high and they shouldn't have caved. He's attempting a scorched earth since, though he won't publicly admit it, he knows he's not going to be in the White House after January 20th.

Additionally, some of the extra funding he is attacking is the funding going to things like the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian.

He won't sign it.