The bailout plan for the US economy, "an important political marker"
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The US Senate finally approved on Saturday the $ 1.9 trillion plan wanted by Joe Biden to revive the world's first economy hit by the pandemic.
REUTERS - KEVIN LAMARQUE
By: Mikaël Ponge
21 mins
50 days already at the White House for Joe Biden, and a 1st legislative victory.
Congress has definitely passed its $ 1.9 trillion economic stimulus package.
A plan of which he will boast this evening, Thursday, March 11, the merits during his first solemn address.
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Despite opposition from the Republicans, who denounce extravagant and poorly targeted spending, the Democrats, a majority in the House of Representatives, on Wednesday adopted a plan of 1900 billion dollars, a dizzying amount equivalent to Italy's GDP.
"An approach that could work in the short term" according to our guest Jeremy Ghez, associate professor of economics and international affairs at HEC Paris, who considers that this is an important political marker for Joe Biden.
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You can read it in the columns of the newspaper Le Nouvelliste.
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