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Tennessee Restaurant Sues Biden Administration Over White Males ‘Pushed To The Back Of The Line’ For Pandemic Relief

Biden's aid program bars white male restaurant owners from applying for aid for three weeks, by which point the fund may be depleted.

Mairead Elordi
Tennessee Restaurant Sues Biden Administration Over White Males ‘Pushed To The Back Of The Line’ For Pandemic Relief
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A Tennessee restaurant owner is suing the Biden administration, claiming that white males have been “pushed to the back of the line” for pandemic aid from a multi-billion dollar restaurant stimulus fund.

Antonio Vitolo, who owns Jake’s Bar and Grill in Harriman, Tennessee, filed the lawsuit in federal court in Tennessee after he applied for a grant from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, a $28.6 billion pandemic fund targeted at the hard-hit restaurant industry. The aid program was approved in March as part of Democrats’ $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill and began accepting applications from restaurants around the country on May 3, the day Vitolo submitted his application.

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