President Donald Trump on Friday signed the US$484 billion Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act into law, triggering a joint announcement by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Small Business Administration (SBA) that the CARES Act‘s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) will resume operations Monday morning at 10:30am EST. Meanwhile, details continued to trickle out about the respective agendas of the White House and Democratic congressional leadership for negotiations over the next federal COVID-19 response measure.
