Senior negotiators at the Capitol reached an agreement Sunday on a nearly $ 1 trillion support package to offset the economic effects of VOCID-19, eventually providing aid to businesses and individuals and allocating money for the distribution of the coveted vaccines. .
The agreement, announced by leaders in the Senate, would establish an additional temporary unemployment benefit of $ 300 per week and direct stimulus payments of $ 600 to most Americans, as well as a new round of subsidies for hard-hit businesses, money for schools, for health care providers, and for tenants facing eviction.
The lower house is expected to put the bill to a vote on Monday, a spokeswoman for the Democratic majority leader in this legislature, Steny Hoyer, said.
The House of Representatives would approve an interim spending bill for a Sunday at midnight to prevent a government shutdown. The Senate is likely to vote Monday as well. Lawmakers are eager to leave Washington and conclude homework in a tumultuous year.
“There will be another large-scale bailout package for the American people,” Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in announcing the deal for an aid bill that it would add up to nearly $ 900 billion. “It’s full of specific policies to help Americans in problems they’ve been waiting too long for.”
The final agreement is the spending initiative to date. It combines aid for COVID-19 with a $ 1.4 trillion government-wide funding plan and multiple additional measures on taxes, health and education.
Its approval is approaching as coronavirus cases and deaths grow and evidence is accumulating that the economy is in trouble.
Last-minute decisions would limit the additional $ 300 weekly unemployment benefit – equivalent to half of the additional federal unemployment benefit provided in March under the CARES Act – to 10 weeks instead of 16 weeks as before.
The direct stimulus payment of $ 600 to most people is also half of what was paid in March, subject to the same income level limits at which individual payment for an individual begins to decline. is progressively by people earning $ 75,000 a year or more.