Business leaders welcomed the news that Congress approved President Joe Biden’s $ 1.9 tonne coronavirus stimulus package, with American Airlines canceling it, but a lobbying group of major American employers stressed the need for dual action in the future.
Doug Parker, CEO of American Airlines, said the 13,000 employees who received notices of adaptation and retraining of workers (WARN) could “tear them apart”. In an Instagram video, he said that once the bill is signed into law, there will be no plans with the carrier in April “and hopefully never again with vaccinations.”
Parker said additional funding for the airline support program would provide job protection for U.S. workers until Sept. 30, and urged employees to thank congressional representatives if they saw them on the run.
The Business Roundtable, the leading lobbying group in Washington, said that while it called for a more targeted approach, it would help provide urgent resources to strengthen the public health response and support individuals and small businesses most affected by the pandemic. be hit.
However, the legislation did not receive dual support, and the lobby group called for a more dual approach to future policies – such as the infrastructure bill that Biden will address next – for a “stronger and more sustainable economic recovery.”
New York, which was hit hard in the early days of the pandemic, should receive $ 100 billion from this deal. This will enable him to maintain essential services, said the Partnership for New York City, a business group representing some of the city’s largest employers.
“The business community is committed to ensuring that these federal funds will utilize additional private investment needed to recover more than 850,000 jobs and thousands of small businesses that lost the city and state to the pandemic,” Kathryn Wylde said. , CEO, said.
The small business advocacy group, Main Street Alliance, said the plan would provide relief for small businesses as well as their customers. “We need to start working now to make it easier for us to build a more resilient and sustainable economy,” said Didier Trinh, director of government affairs at Main Street Alliance.