Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday the White House is working to send $1,000 checks to most adult Americans within three weeks to offset the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced life in the U.S.
to come to a grinding halt. RELATED: CoronavirusNOW.com, FOX launches national hub for COVID-19 news and updates. "We're going to get out of this quickly," Mnuchin told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo.
The White House and Congress have so far passed two stimulus packages, including $8.3 billion in funding for prevention efforts and research, and a bill that extends paid sick leave to most Americans and provides free testing for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.