Jerome Powell pledges that emergency lending programs will be running by end of May

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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that emergency lending programs enacted in legislation in March would be up and running by the end of May.

“On the Main Street and frankly all of the other facilities, we expect all of them to be stood-up and ready to go by the end of this month; I won’t say it won’t be a day or two in June, but that’s our expectation,” he told the Senate Banking Committee.

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