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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the stimulus bill being negotiated in Congress to help offset the devastating effects of the coronavirus on the economy includes checks or direct deposits to Americans and enhanced unemployment benefits.

He said Democratic and Republican lawmakers are considering four components to the trillion-dollar package, and that President Trump is determined to protect American workers.

“The first part are what I call small business retention loans. If you’re a small business, you’ll get two weeks of cash flow to pay your workers. You’ll also get some overhead, and if you do that, your loans will be forgiven,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“That will allow small businesses to keep people and make sure when the economy stabilizes, they are up and running,” Mnuchin said.

The second part is sending a family of four an average “direct deposit or check” of about $3,000 — “a bridge for them to get through this quickly.”

The third is enhanced unemployment, and the fourth is $4 trillion in “support liquidity” to boost the economy that would come through the Federal Reserve.

Mnuchin also said the plan includes about $110 billion for hospitals and medical professionals who are on the front lines of the coronavirus fight.

Asked by host John Roberts how quickly this jolt to the economy can happen, Mnuchin said he “hopes this gets passed on Monday.”

“We need to get the money into the economy now. If we do that, we think we can stabilize the economy,” he continued. “I think the president has every expectation that this is going to look a lot better four or eight weeks from now.”

The $4 trillion in liquidity will be used to support “broad-based lending programs” to help both small and big companies taking a financial hit as more states implement large-scale quarantine efforts and shutter businesses.

“When we started, this was a bit unique to the airline industry, since we have shut down most of airline travel. But now that we’ve shut down major parts of the economy, this liquidity facility is a broad-based liquidity facility working with the Fed,” he said.

“There is a small component for airlines and national security companies but it is broad-based. We can lever up to $4 trillion to help everything from small business to big businesses get through the next 90 to 120 days,” Mnuchin added.