A few days before taking office at the White House, Joe Biden detailed Thursday evening a very large-scale stimulus plan to "rebuild America".

The president-elect of the United States has promised a "new chapter" for the country and said he was "optimistic" about the outcome of the crises that shake it.

In office from Wednesday, January 20, Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled a new emergency stimulus package of 1.9 trillion dollars, supposed to get the United States out of its worst crisis since the 1930s. It will be followed in the coming weeks. an investment plan to revive the economy.

Faced with the extent of the economic crisis linked to the coronavirus, "we cannot afford to stand idly by," Joe Biden defended Thursday evening, presenting, from his stronghold of Wilmington, Delaware, this package of 'aid, known as the "backup plan".

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Checks to families, funds to reopen schools, money to speed up tests and vaccines, cash for small businesses, or even more food aid: the measures must respond to the emergency, and prevent the country from sinking further into the crisis.

Then there will be an investment plan in the green economy, the outlines of which will be defined in the coming weeks.

"Made in America", democratic side

It will then be a question of creating the "millions" of "well-paid" manufacturing jobs.

Joe Biden has therefore taken over the "Made in America" ​​dear to Donald Trump.

“Imagine a future: 'made in America', 'made entirely in America and entirely by Americans',” he said, stressing that taxpayers' money will be used to “rebuild America”.

“We will buy American products, supporting millions of American industrial jobs,” he said.

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In the meantime, it will be necessary to convince elected officials of Congress to release the 1.9 trillion dollars of the emergency plan.

"The return on investment in terms of jobs, racial equality, will prevent economic damage in the long term," said Joe Biden, anticipating criticism of the country's growing debt.

"The benefits will be far greater than the cost" of this plan, he added.

Aid extended until September

Republicans are in fact likely to oppose it because they recently praised the virtues of budgetary orthodoxy after having voted in the spring for an aid plan of 2,200 billion dollars wanted by Republican President Donald Trump.

Democratic officials from both chambers have assured them of their support: "We will immediately get to work to transform into legislation, which will be adopted by both chambers and ratified into law, the vision of President-elect Biden", responded Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi in a joint statement.

The text provides that Americans receive a new check for $ 1,400 per person based on income.

The package of 900 billion dollars adopted in December, considered as a "down payment" by Joe Biden, had allowed them to put 600 dollars in their pockets.

But the Democrats, in an unusual deal with Donald Trump, demanded $ 2,000.

While 18 million Americans still live on unemployment benefits, aid will be extended until the end of September as well as the possibility of taking paid sick leave in the event of contamination with Covid-19.