Fellow senators and all members of Congress must act quickly in order to get liquidity to small businesses and aid to workers and companies suffering from an abrupt end to consumer activity due to the coronavirus, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio urged Tuesday. "This is not a bunch of businesses who made a bad decision and now are looking for the government to help them out," he stated. And, the result is, people are going to lose their jobs, businesses are going to close, and we're going to have to do something to buffer that." Rubio said that, in the meantime, whatever was "wrong" with the original bill the Senate would look to fix in their own bill focusing on allowing airlines to continue to operate and getting liquidity into the hands of small businesses. "Now is the time to act to keep this from being worse than it needs to be," he concluded.

Source: Fox News March 17, 2020 14:03 UTC