ORLANDO, Fla. – Sen. Marco Rubio heard from a number of Central Florida business owners at a roundtable discussion Tuesday morning in Orlando.
The focus was on the impact the Paycheck Protection Program has had on their business during the pandemic. Many said the PPP loan helped them make it through the pandemic. [TRENDING: COVID after the vaccine | Bugsy, the French bulldog, stolen at gunpoint | SpaceX Starship explodes again] “2020 happened and business went from 100% to where we were, to like less than 3%,” George Chen, the owner of the Island Grove Wine Company at Formosa Gardens said.
Chen said he spent $2 million dollars of his personal savings, including taking out some retirement money to put into the winery.