Can Another $1.9 Trillion Rescue The Economy?

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🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The pandemic is taking an immense toll on the nation: some 4000 Americans die each day. And, in December, another 140 thousand people lost their jobs. President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a pricy relief package meant to take on those outsized crises, suggesting the price of doing nothing is even greater than the cost of the legislation.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, and chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:06.2	I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.
0:08.4	And I'm Ayesha Rasko, I also cover the White House.
0:11.4	And we have NPR's Chief Economics Correspondent Scott Horsley here with us.
0:16.2	Hey Scott.
0:17.2	Hey Tim, I used to cover the White House.
0:18.7	Indeed you did.
0:19.7	And now you cover the economy, which is convenient.
0:23.0	The time now is 9.39 pm on Thursday, the 14th of January.
0:30.2	And earlier this evening, President-elect Joe Biden outlined an ambitious plan that he
0:35.1	hopes will help the nation make it through the twin crises as he described it of the
0:39.9	coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout.
0:43.4	He is asking Congress to pass a $1.9 trillion sprawling coronavirus relief package.
0:51.1	And it's not hard to see that we're in the middle of the once in several generations
0:56.1	economic crisis with the once in several generations public health crisis.
1:03.6	The crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight.
1:08.0	And there's no time to waste.
1:11.0	We have to act, we have to act now.
1:13.8	And Ayesha, you were there in Wilmington with Joe Biden when he made that announcement,
1:18.8	delivered that address.
1:20.1	What should we know about his plan?
1:22.3	So this is, as you said, a really big plan.
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