US Treasury wanted to inject additional hundreds of billions of dollars into the national economy as support measures amid the coronavirus pandemic. The head of the department Steve Mnuchin, who is quoted by TASS .
The amount of aid announced by Mnuchin is $ 916 billion, eight billion more than the option previously approved by representatives of the two leading parties in Congress.
The size of the stimulus package is controversial between Democrats and Republicans in parliament: the former, who control the House of Representatives, are in favor of allocating two trillion dollars, the latter, with a majority in the Senate, are in favor of limiting themselves to 500 billion.
The current proposal of Mnuchin and the current US President Donald Trump has already been criticized by the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer . According to them, the initiative is unacceptable, since it involves a sharp reduction in unemployment benefits.