And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

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At the end of his first year in office he continued to deal with multiple high visibility issues including administration efforts to restructure the regulation of the nation's financial system attempts to spur recovery of both the mortgage market and the automobile industry demands for protectionism President Obama's tax changes and negotiations with foreign governments on approaches to worldwide financial issues. : /ˈɡaɪtnər/; born August 18 1961) is an American economic policy maker and central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013.