Name: 拜登尋求加快交付COVID-19援助的速度 (Biden seeks to speed delivery of COVID-19 aid)
Uploaded: 2021-01-23T19:06:01.000Z
Duration: 2 min 6 s

so, but families literally can't wait another day.

所以，但家庭真的不能再等一天。

President Joe Biden on Friday signed executive orders to fight the economic fallout of the pandemic.

美國總統喬-拜登週五簽署了行政命令，以對抗流行病的經濟後果。

The first step of our American rescue plan is a plan to tackle the pandemic and get direct financial relief to Americans who need it the most.

我們的美國救援計劃的第一步，是一個應對疫情的計劃，讓最需要的美國人得到直接的經濟救濟。

The orders would speed the delivery of pandemic stimulus checks to needy families and increased food aid for Children who normally rely on school meals.

這些命令將加快向貧困家庭提供大流行病刺激檢查，並增加對通常依賴學校膳食的兒童的食品援助。

Biden is using the two executive orders to try to ease people's burdens while Congress negotiates the fate of his proposed $1.9 trillion stimulus package.

拜登正在利用這兩項行政命令試圖減輕人們的負擔，而國會則在談判他提出的1.9萬億美元經濟刺激計劃的命運。

At a press briefing Friday, White House National Economic Council director Brian Deese told reporters that the American people can't afford to wait is if we don't act now, we will be in a much worse place and we will find ourselves needing to do much more to dig out of a much deeper hole when you're at a moment.

在週五的新聞發佈會上，白宮國家經濟委員會主任布賴恩-迪斯告訴記者，美國人民不能等待的是，如果我們現在不採取行動，我們將處於一個更糟糕的地方，我們會發現自己需要做更多的事情來挖出一個更深的洞，當你在一個時刻。

Uh, that is as precarious as the one we find ourselves in the risk of doing too little.

呃，這和我們發現自己做得太少的風險一樣，岌岌可危。

The risk of under shooting far outweighs the risk of doing too much.

射程不足的風險遠遠超過了做得過多的風險。

About 16 million people are now receiving some type of unemployment benefit, and an estimated 29 million do not have enough to eat.

現在約有1600萬人領取某種類型的失業救濟金，估計有2900萬人吃不飽飯。

Women, minorities and low income service workers have been disproportionately hurt, with black and Hispanic workers facing higher jobless rates than white workers.

婦女、少數族裔和低收入服務人員受到的傷害特別大，黑人和西班牙裔工人的失業率高於白人工人。

Yesterday we learned that 900,000 more Americans file for unemployment 900,000.

昨天我們得知，又有90萬美國人申請失業90萬。

Dese said Biden's actions were not a substitute for legislative relief and that he is speaking with lawmakers Sunday to push for more relief.

德塞說，拜登的行動並不能代替立法救濟，他週日將與立法者交談，推動更多的救濟。

Republican lawmakers have questioned the price tags on pandemic aid and Biden separate $2 trillion investment proposal for infrastructure, green energy projects, education and research.

共和黨議員對大流行病援助的價格提出質疑，拜登單獨提出2萬億美元的投資建議，用於基礎設施、綠色能源項目、教育和研究。

Biden Second Order will restore collective bargaining power and worker protections by revoking three related orders issued by Trump during his term, which ended on Wednesday.

拜登第二令將通過撤銷特朗普在其任期內發佈的三項相關命令，恢復集體談判權和工人保護，該命令於週三結束。

 It also promotes a $15 an hour minimum wage. 

它還提倡每小時15美元的最低工資。