President-elect Joe Biden proposed a rescue package on Thursday that would spend $1.9 trillion to fight the pandemic and the resulting economic crisis.
Here & Now‘s Lisa Mullins gets a reaction from Jason Furman, professor of economics at the Harvard Kennedy School. Furman served as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration.
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