4月2日，在冠状病毒特别工作组的简报会上，史蒂文·姆努钦在新闻发布室与唐纳德·特朗普、迈克·彭斯和小企业管理局局长乔维塔·卡兰萨交谈。据《福布斯》报道，美国人在过去两周内申请了1000万份失业救济。
美国财政部长史蒂夫·姆努钦周二表示，唐纳德·特朗普总统正在关注美国经济可以重新开放的领域。
“我认为我从许多地方的医疗专业人士那里听到的一切是，我们正接近最糟糕的时刻，并开始达到顶峰。我认为事情会变得更好。我知道总统非常关注我们如何重新开放部分经济。在美国的某些地方，比如纽约，这显然非常令人担忧。在福克斯商业网的一次露面中，姆努钦说。
姆努钦说，他希望关闭不会持续超过八周，这是小企业从联邦政府贷款项目中获得贷款时可以支付给员工的时间长度。
“所有这些小企业需要做的就是支付员工工资。如果他们关门了，没有工作可做，他们就不必进来。他们只是付钱给他们，所以一旦他们准备好开业，他们就有了自己的员工。……他们不必失业，”姆努钦说，并补充说，受益于该计划的人数占“私营经济的50%。
"我可以向你保证，总统已经指示我们尽快将这笔钱投入经济。"
据报道，美国人在过去两周内已经申请了1000万份失业救济福布斯。这些数字是由于应对新的冠状病毒大流行的家庭订单导致企业倒闭。《商业内幕》编制了一份主要公司的名单，这些公司要么解雇了数千名员工，要么已经休假。包括万豪国际、通用电气和梅西百货。
特朗普曾表示，他不希望治疗比疾病更糟糕，这意味着保护美国人免受新冠状病毒感染的措施不应该比病毒本身的影响更糟糕。
“我们建立了世界上最大的经济体。我会再做一次。我们被一种没人认为可能的病毒人为阻止了，”总统在周一的每日冠状病毒新闻发布会上说。
根据约翰·霍普金斯冠状病毒资源中心，美国有超过370，000例新冠状病毒确诊病例，超过11，000人死于该病毒。
TREASURY SECRETARY STEVE MNUCHIN SAYS DONALD TRUMP IS LOOKING AT AREAS OF U.S. WHERE ECONOMY CAN BE REOPENED
Steven Mnuchin speaks in the press briefing room with Donald Trump, Mike Pence and Administrator Jovita Carranza of the Small Business Administration during the Coronavirus Task Force briefing on April 2. Americans have filed 10 million unemployment claims in the past two weeks, according to Forbes.
Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin said Tuesday that President Donald Trump is looking at areas in the country where the economy can be reopened.
"I think everything I hear from the medical professionals in many places is we're close to the worst point and beginning to peak. I think then things are going to get better. I know the president is very much looking at how we can reopen parts of the economy. There are parts of the country, like New York, where obviously this is very, very concerning. There are other parts of the country where it's not," Mnuchin said in an appearance on FOX Business Network.
Mnuchin said he hopes the shutdown will not go on longer than eight weeks, which is the length of time small businesses can pay their employees when they take out a loan from the federal government loan program provided under the CARES Act.
"All these small businesses need to do is pay their employees. If they're closed and there's no work to do, they don't have to come in. They just pay them so as soon as they're ready to open, they have their employees.… They didn't have to get unemployment," Mnuchin said, adding that the amount of people who could benefit for this program account for "50 percent of the private economy.
"I can assure you the president has instructed us to get this money into the economy fast."
Americans have filed 10 million unemployment claims in the past two weeks, according to Forbes. The numbers are due to businesses closing down as a result of stay-at-home orders put in place in response to the new coronavirus pandemic. Businesses Insider compiled a list of major companies that have either furloughed or laid off thousands of employees. including Marriott International, General Electric and Macy's.
Trump has said that he does not want the cure to be worse than the disease, meaning that the measures put in place to protect Americans from contracting the new coronavirus should not be worse than the impact of the virus itself.
"We built the greatest economy in the world. I'll do it a second time. We got artificially stopped by a virus that nobody ever thought possible," the president said Monday during his daily coronavirus press briefing.
There are over 370,000 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the United States and over 11,000 deaths attributed to the virus, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
