Stephen Miller’s legal group filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the Biden administration of racial discrimination in the distribution of COVID-19 relief funds.
According to The Hill, the lawsuit from America First Legal (AFL) specifically takes issue with the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) handling of the $28.6 billion in the Restaurant Revitalization Fund within President Biden’s American Rescue Plan package passed by Congress.
They argue that the fund requires the SBA “to discriminate among restaurants according to the race and sex of the owner,” and ‘prioritize awarding grants’ to businesses owned by women and racial minorities.”
In a statement announcing the new lawsuit Thursday, Miller said, “Few industries have been harder hit by lockdowns and restrictions than the restaurant and bar industry.”
“Yet, as these restaurant owners, operators and workers try to pick up the pieces and rebuild their businesses, they are facing a new and insidious threat: racial discrimination from the government,” he argued.
Miller added that the “decision from the Biden Administration to determine eligibility and priority for restaurant relief funds based upon race is profoundly illegal and morally outrageous.”
Read the full report from The Hill.
