U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday the country's smallest businesses need to be protected against the ravages of the coronavirus ...
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday the country's smallest businesses need to be protected against the ravages of the coronavirus outbreak and pushed for US$60 billion to be allocated to those enterprises in the next funding allocation.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi makes a statement about coronavirus disease economic relief legislation from the Speakers Lobby of the U.S. Capitol Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 23, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/PoolWASHINGTON: U.S.
"There is a disparity in access to capital in our country. We do not want this tragedy of a coronavirus to exacerbate that disparity or to ossify it, to solidify it," Pelosi told reporters.
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