Obama Promises Ramped Up Stimulus Spending

President Obama today promised to speed up spending of funds allocated by the stimulus bill to create as many as 600,000 new jobs by this summer.

By Claude R. Marx | June 07, 2009 at 08:00 PM

President Obama today promised to speed up spending of funds allocated by the stimulus bill to create as many as 600,000 new jobs by this summer.

The funds will go for items such as maintenance projects at military bases and approximately 1,600 road and airport projects.

Congress passed a stimulus bill in February.

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