President-elect Joe Biden would unveil a $ 1.9 trillion aid package for COVID-19 today based on a more robust vaccination plan as well as direct aid check payments, NPR reported.
The plan will be called the “Rescue Plan for America” and would include the payment of $ 1,400 incentive checks that would be added to the $ 600 checks already approved by Congress.
Biden will also propose investing $ 160 billion in a national vaccination plan, including $ 20 billion in distribution and $ 50 billion in expanding testing sites.
According to Bloomberg, this is part of the first phase of a two-step strategy that would later include investments in infrastructure and climate change.
It is unclear when Congress could debate approving this measure, given that Biden’s term start would be monopolized by the start of the political trial against Donald Trump.
Biden is scheduled to speak to the public at 7:15 pm and is where he is expected to give the announcement.
Close approval of the plan to distribute the $ 600 in Puerto Rico
For his part, earlier today the Secretary of the Department of Finance, Francisco Parés, was confident that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) approves in the coming days the plan for the distribution of the new $ 600 incentive.
It was even advanced that by or before February 15 the checks should be distributed.
The agency submitted the distribution plan to the Federal Treasury on December 28, 2020 after Congress approved a new package of economic stimulus in the face of the crisis caused by the pandemic of the COVID-19[feminine.