U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, has proposed giving people who return to work following the COVID-19 pandemic $450 a week on top of whatever wages they earn.

“The idea is to have a bonus,” Portman said in an interview with CNBC’s Kelly Evans. “Right now, as we just saw with your stock market report, the economy is starting to reopen, and that’s good. But to have a robust economic recovery that we all want, we’ve got to encourage people to go back to work.”