Mr. Fertitta, the billionaire owner of the restaurant group Landry’s, told Mr. Trump it was unfair that he had to lay off 40,000 workers at his 600 restaurants only because they were employed by a larger corporation that was suddenly boxed out of the program amid public outrage over big companies getting bailouts. Mr. Trump turned to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, whose rule changes had excluded companies like Landry’s, which owns restaurants like Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse and Morton’s Grille, to see if there was anything he could do to help.

Source: New York Times May 28, 2020 16:21 UTC