McConnell outlines four-part stimulus plan

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday the Senate is crafting a four-part coronavirus stimulus package that would inject hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy and that he hopes lawmakers will pass “swiftly.”

McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, has assigned top Republicans to draft the proposal, which is made up of aid to small businesses, direct cash payments to individual workers, help for big industries including the airlines, and more money for the nation’s healthcare system to deal with the virus.