Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday called on the U.S. government to respond to the coronavirus outbreak by passing a “big stimulus package” that offers health-care guarantees and injects money at the “grassroots level.”
In an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, the Massachusetts Democrat explained that her far-reaching proposal addresses everything from COVID-19 testing to student loan holders to workers and businesses. The total package would cost $750 billion, up from the $400 billion original plan she presented last week.
“We need to show that we have a government that understands the scale of this problem and understands that the approach to it is to get money … Down into the hands of the people who will put it down at the grassroots level and help support this economy from the ground up,” she said in a “Mad Money” interview. “So that’s the basic approach.”
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