Mr. Obama has proposed a stimulus package intended to create or save three million jobs, largely through financing infrastructure improvements.
BRUSSELS — Seeking to revive the region's rapidly deteriorating economy, the European Commission on Wednesday proposed a stimulus package totaling 200 billion euros, or $256.22 billion.
Clearly, the administration proposed a stimulus package that was too small to begin with and was whittled down further by "centrists" in the Senate.
So Mr. Bush has put a premium on a two-track public opinion strategy: Rallying the country to war and explaining the goals at every turn, while taking visible steps like proposing a stimulus package to jolt the economy.
In 2011, he proposed a stimulus measure called the American Jobs Act and gave a speech to Congress in which he demanded twenty times that legislators pass his jobs bill.
That is one reason Mr. Bush moved quickly, after an extended swing through the Middle East, to join Democrats last week in proposing a stimulus that would distribute rebate checks of up to $1,200 to 117 million families.
Lawrence B. Lindsey, Mr. Bush's chief economic adviser, noted that the stock market had risen by more than 400 points since the president proposed a stimulus package of up to $75 billion for the current year.
That's why tonight, I'm proposing a stimulus package that is specifically structured to attract support from the Republican caucus, and I urge you to pass it right away.
By proposing a stimulus of tax cuts and government spending when unemployment is low and the economy is already growing, Trump raises the risk of overheating the economy and increasing inflation.
He's done it again on economic stimulus: last month, before the economic consensus turned as negative as it now has, he proposed a stimulus package including aid to unemployed workers, aid to cash-strapped state and local governments, public investment in alternative energy, and other measures.
The talks, which were spurred by the recession's crippling effect on new housing, began in May, several months after Mr. Newsom proposed a stimulus package to get development projects restarted.
