Those loans were meant to help automakers build more fuel-efficient vehicles. The administration now supports allowing it to be used for more urgent purposes as the companies struggle to stay afloat.
Bush wants $25B in loans released to carmakers
WASHINGTON (AP) - November 14, 2008 Spokeswoman Dana Perino says the Democratic proposal would lead
to partisan gridlock because the $700 billion rescue package was
never intended to help automakers and shouldn't be now. For that
reason, she told The Associated Press that the White House is now
actively asking Congress to accelerate loans it first approved in
September.
