Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says the Trump administration supports a 2nd round of stimulus checks, adding it can be deposited into bank accounts 'very quickly'

• Mnuchin said the administration supported another round of stimulus payments and said they could be deposited into bank accounts rapidly.
• "We can get that into hard-working Americans' bank accounts very, very quickly. The level and the criteria, we'll be discussing with the Senate," Mnuchin said in a CNBC interview.
• The federal government has sent 160 million direct payments, with the vast majority made between April and May.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday that the Trump administration supports another round of stimulus payments.

"We do support another round of economic impact payments," Mnuchin said during a CNBC interview, referring to another name for the stimulus checks. "We can get that into hard-working Americans' bank accounts very, very quickly. The level and the criteria, we'll be discussing with the Senate."See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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