WASHINGTON—Restaurants, live-events businesses and gyms are among industries renewing calls for Congress to provide additional financial assistance amid signs the rise in Covid-19 cases is slowing U.S. economic activity.
The pleas for aid follow the funding exhaustion or closing of several programs established by Congress earlier in the pandemic, leaving small businesses with fewer options for federal help. Some businesses also say they haven’t received meaningful aid, since they were ineligible for certain earlier programs.
