Cecilia Rouse: “Our prime focus right now has to be on getting us through this pandemic, to provide aid to our households, to our…”

President Biden has been laser focused on accomplishing two things in his presidency. One, getting us through this pandemic, and the ensuing economic crisis.

I believe we have to be doing smart investments as we come out of this that have economic returns such as those on investments in infrastructure, R&D, education.

We must take action to shepherd our Nation's economy back onto solid footing.

If we do not, we run the risk of actually finding ourselves in a downward spiral, because the capacity to deal with our debt is not only the amount that we spend but the size of our economy.