The President of Barstool Sports, Dave Portnoy, recently visited a pizza shop in Baltimore, Maryland, for one of his famous reviews. He ended up giving the shop’s owner a huge Christmas gift of $60,000 to ensure the business stayed open for at least another year in the heart-warming clip.

In the video posted on social media on Monday, Portnoy stops by TinyBrickOven in Baltimore’s Federal Hill neighborhood to review the establishment’s product. During the clip, Portnoy discovers that the business owner, Will Fagg, is actually planning to close up shop in just a few days. He tells Portnoy that the restaurant has not been able to secure a liquor license, which has had a negative impact on business.

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“We can’t get our liquor license here,” Fagg said, according to CBS News. “Our politicians gave this market down here their liquor license, but they won’t give us ours.”

As he’s waiting for the pizza, Portnoy shares a hint of his plan, turning to the camera and saying, “We’re gonna have to keep this place open.” As he’s eating the “very good, thin, New York-kinda style” pizza, Portnoy points out a sticker on the box that says TinyBrickOven will close on December 25 without financial assistance. Portnoy goes on to ask Fagg how much money he would need to stay open for a year, and he eventually lands on $60,000 to which Portnoy agrees. In the video, Portnoy said Fagg can expect to have the money before Christmas. He rates the pizza a 7.9.

“The whole neighborhood is crazy, wanting us to stay open…our politicians just turned their backs on us, it’s really disappointing,” Fagg told Portnoy. A report from The Baltimore Banner revealed that the Barstool Sports founder was spotted in the middle of December visiting a number of restaurants in Maryland, including Frank’s Pizza & Pasta on Bel Air Road in Baltimore and Pizza John’s in the city of Essex.

Baltimore has seen several local restaurants announce closures over the last several weeks, including another spot in Federal Hill, Mother’s Grille. The establishment announced that it would close on January 19. Dave Rather, the owner of Mother’s Grille, spoke with the media, stating that he was going to close that branch and focus his time and attention on its other locations.

“Now there’s tons of places down here, 25 bars and restaurants,” he stated. “The restaurant business is tough. You know, anybody that can last this long, it’s saying something.”

Another eatery, Nacho Mama’s, also told the public it would be shutting down two of its locations, one located in Towson and the other in Canton, after three decades of operation. The owner gave no reason for the closures. The restaurants will cease operations on January 12, 2025.

The details surrounding the emergency spending bill are expected to be delayed and may “slip by a day” as the deadline to avoid a government shutdown looms.

Lawmarkers were expected to share the text of the emergency spending bill to avoid a government shutdown and address disaster relief on Sunday, but Fox News is told the text “may slip by a day.”

It comes as both House and Senate lawmakers negotiate over how large the disaster aid package should be, and whether it should be attached to an end-of-year federal funding bill that’s critical to avoiding a partial government shutdown during the holiday season.

This could pose a problem because government funding expires at 11:59:59 p.m. on Friday. Pushing this back means the House may not be able to process the bill until the end of the week. 

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It is also noted that it doesn’t take much for the Senate to slow things down if senators demand time. 

The House has a so-called “three-day rule” which requires text to be posted for three days before debate and vote. However, waiting until tomorrow means the House may not consider the bill until Thursday or Friday – the peak of the deadline. 

Fox News is told there are no hold-ups with government funding, through mid-March, or the disaster package for Hurricanes Helene, Milton, wildfires in Maui, the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore and tornadoes in the Midwest, but that there is an issue with agricultural provisions “and other things important to leaders on both sides.”

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One source declined to answer when Fox was asked if there was an effort to tuck last-minute provisions into the catch-all measure for Syria or drones. 

In early October, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Fox News Digital that Helene would likely be “one of the most expensive storms that the country has ever encountered.”

The Biden administration has asked for over $100 billion in funding for disaster aid in the aftermath of hurricanes Helene and Milton.

The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus is calling on Republican leaders to reject President Biden’s disaster aid request.

The group is demanding a slimmed-down package covering what is “absolutely necessary,” to be offset with spending cuts elsewhere.

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“Congress should not pass a whopping $100 billion unpaid disaster supplemental funding bill — that Democrats will use to cement their own unrelated priorities — in the waning days of Democrat control in Washington right before Republicans take control of the White House and both Chambers,” the House Freedom Caucus statement read.

“The House should consider only what is absolutely necessary right now to provide critical relief to hurricane victims and farmers, and pay for it with offsets from wasteful spending elsewhere in the government, then wait for President Trump to take office to better manage disaster relief.”

If new spending is not approved by way of appropriations bills or a stopgap measure, a partial government shutdown could happen before Christmas. 

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report. 

Stepheny Price is writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Story tips and ideas can be sent to stepheny.price@fox.com