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Federal Reserve chair: Economy would have been 'so much worse' without COVID-19 relief bills

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4/11/21
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the economy would have been “so much worse” if the COVID-19 relief bills were never passed by Congress. In an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired on Sunday, CBS’s Scott Pelley asked Powell what he thinks would have happened to the economy if the rescue packages were never passed. “You know, I hate to even think. It would've been so much worse,” Powell told Pelley. “Congress, in effect, replaced people's incomes. Kept them in their homes, kept them solvent, kept their lives together with what they did in the CARES Act. It was heroic,” he said. On March 11, President Biden signed a third major COVID-19 relief bill into law, totaling $1.9 trillion. Powell told the program that the unknowns at the outset of the pandemic were “terrifying,” which is why he became a vocal supporter of the multitrillion-dollar relief legislation. He also took action on his own at the Federal Reserve, invoking the Fed’s emergency lending powers, “60 Minutes” noted. Powell lowered the benchmark interest rate to near zero, and purchased trillions of dollars in bonds on the open market so credit could continue to flow, the program reported.

Powell added that the economy performed “substantially better” than what was expected when the coronavirus first set in, noting, however, that the more than 550,000 lives lost is a “tragedy.” “The other side of that, though, is if you told me at this time last year that 550,000 plus people and counting would die of COVID-19, I would have been shocked. You know, it's a lot of tragedy. It really is. And we don't want to forget that,” he continued. Since the height of the pandemic last spring, The U.S. has made strides in its recovery effort. Earlier this month, the Labor Department reported that the U.S. added 916,000 jobs in March, which shattered economist projections of 675,000 jobs. Additionally, the department reported that the unemployment rate fell to 6 percent last month.


The unemployment checks and the latest Stimulus checks most Americans have received? NOT ONE REPUBLICAN IN CONGRESS VOTED YES FOR THE BIDEN STIMULUS PACKAGE.

Remember that when you vote again in 2022 and 2024. Republicans would rather obstruct Joe Biden than help Americans devastated by the COVID pandemic.
 




The unemployment checks and the latest Stimulus checks most Americans have received? NOT ONE REPUBLICAN IN CONGRESS VOTED YES FOR THE BIDEN STIMULUS PACKAGE.

Remember that when you vote again in 2022 and 2024. Republicans would rather obstruct Joe Biden than help Americans devastated by the COVID pandemic.
The extra unemployment money? Yes...that helped. The stimulus checks? No. That was too little to help anyone. There was other stuff in the first two CARES Acts that helped businesses a lot. And Biden's $1.9 Trillion pile of pork? That helps almost NO workers. (Except for illegal aliens in NY and federal employees who never lost their jobs.)

Now...as Powell said, the Feds did help. It's a good thing they did what Trump asked them to do, isn't it?

btw, Trump told us a year ago that the economy would be improving around this time.
 
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