Two trillion American dollars. That’s almost a tenth of the size of the entire US economy, the world’s largest.
It’s a quarter of total American public expenditure last year.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, passed by the Senate earlier this week and due to go before Congress today, sounds huge.
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