He pushed through what voters thought was a stimulus bill.

Its stock was holed below the waterline by reports that a $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill would exclude large cruise ships.

The 2009 stimulus bill exempts the first few unemployment checks from taxes.

If not, the longhoped-for recovery in consumer spending may never arrive, he said, and the housing situation could undermine the country's 'make-or-break' stimulus bill.

In 2009, in the middle of the worst recession since the 1930s, a newly elected president asked for a modest stimulus bill to stop the bleeding.