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Congress seals agreement on $900 billion COVID relief bill
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WASHINGTON, 21 December 2020, (TON): Capitol Hill negotiators signed a deal Sunday on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package. The agreement, announced by congressional leaders, would establish a temporary $300 per week supplemental jobless benefit and a $600 direct stimulus payment to most Americans, along with a new round of subsidies for hard-hit businesses and money for schools, health care providers and renters facing eviction.
The final agreement would be the largest spending measure yet. It combined $900 billion for COVID-19 relief with a $1.4 trillion government-wide funding plan and lots of other unrelated measures on taxes, health, infrastructure and education. The government-wide funding would keep the government open through September.
The government-wide appropriations bill would fund agencies through next September. That measure was likely to provide a last $1.4 billion installment for Trump’s US-Mexico border wall as a condition of winning his signature.
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