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Faced with the economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, states have had to implement budgetary measures to protect businesses, jobs and households. Despite the inadequacy of the data, the article, which mainly covers Germany, Spain, the United States, France, Italy and the United Kingdom, offers a comparative overview of these measures. Public spending has been unprecedented in its variety and magnitude in all of these countries, which has broadly allowed businesses and households to be compensated for loss of activity. While the budgetary efforts have been considerably more substantial in the United States, there are also significant differences between the major European countries. France differs from other countries in its unwillingness to offer significant supplementary measures for households, which has probably resulted in the exclusion of certain sections of the population made vulnerable by the crisis.