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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics.

It's Thursday, April 9th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

Two weeks ago, Congress passed the biggest stimulus bill in American history

to address the devastation the coronavirus is bringing to workers and the economy.

It will send $2 trillion to the unemployed businesses and medical providers.

Despite the size of the bill, economists and infectious disease specialists mostly agreed

that it is not enough.

And members of Congress are discussing a second bill that would authorize another $250 billion

in aid to small businesses. The administration, though, continues to push to reopen the economy

as soon as possible. Larry Kudlow, Trump's most publicly accessible economic advisor,

told Politico this week that it could be as soon as the next four to

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