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On December 19, George W. Bush announced that he had approved the bailout plan, which would give loans of $17.4 billion to U.S. automakers GM and Chrysler, stating that under present economic conditions, "allowing the U.S. auto industry to collapse is not a responsible course of action."
All that money had been returned. $5 billion in loan guarantees for Citigroup ($5 billion). The program closed, with no payment made, on December 23, 2009. $79.7 billion in loans and capital injections to automakers and their financing arms through the Automotive Industry Financing Program. $21.9 billion to buy "toxic" mortgage-related securities.
Under terms of a $17.4 billion bailout approved by President Bush on Friday, General Motors and Chrysler have three months to turn things around. If they don't, they have to repay the loans and ...
The Big Three received funding for a $25 billion government loan during October 2008 to help them re-tool their factories to meet new fuel-efficiency standards of at least 35 mpg ‑US (6.7 L/100 km; 42 mpg ‑imp) by 2020. The $25 billion in loans from the Department of Energy to the auto manufacturers were actually authorized by Congress ...
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Congress later passed the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979, which re-stabilized the company, signed and approved by President Jimmy Carter in January of 1980, authorized $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees to the Chrysler Corporation, making it the largest government bailout of a private company at the time. [5]
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The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, also known as the "bank bailout of 2008" or the "Wall Street bailout", was a United States federal law enacted during the Great Recession, which created federal programs to "bail out" failing financial institutions and banks.