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In the wee hours of Monday night, both chambers of Congress passed a COVID-19 stimulus package with funding for seemingly everyone under the sun except state and local governments. The bill includes direct cash payments, extra unemployment checks, and another round of small business loans through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
PJ Media’s Victoria Taft highlighted the absurd sections in the bill, including a “Climate Security Advisory Council,” “gender programs” in Pakistan, funding to investigate the 1908 Springfield Race Riot, and more. This article explains the basic nuts and bolts of the bill what it means for you and what it will do specifically about the COVID-19 pandemic.
More help, at long last, is on the way.
After months of partisan gridlock and inaction even as hundreds of thousands of Americans were dying due to Covid-19 and millions more were falling into poverty congressional leaders have finally agreed on another $900 billion coronavirus relief package.
On Monday afternoon, mere hours ahead of planned votes, lawmakers released the text of the legislation, 5,593 pages combining pandemic relief and $1.4 trillion in funding for government operations for the full 2021 fiscal year.
“We’re going to stay here until we finish tonight,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said. The House and Senate late Sunday passed a one-day stopgap government funding measure, averting a partial shutdown and allowing more time for the legislative text to be finalized and passed.
The pandemic relief package passed Monday by Congress will provide help for unemployed Pennsylvanians and extend benefits set to run out at the end of the month.People who apply for federal unemployment benefits will receive $300 per week for 11 weeks from the end of December through March 14.“It’ll help them pay for basic necessities like food and housing for themselves and their families,” said Jennifer Berrier, the acting secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry.The relief package also includes an extension of the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program and the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program.Berrier said the state is ready to implement these updated programs.Pennsylvania has recovered more than half the 1.1 million jobs lost at the beginning of the pandemic, and the unemployment rate fell below the national rate in November to 6.6%. However, about 500,000 Pennsylvanians remain unemployed.Despite this, officials said, state assi
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Hereâs whatâs in the new $900 billion stimulus package
By Rachel Siegel, Jeff Stein and Mike DeBonis The Washington Post,Updated December 20, 2020, 9:12 p.m.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) during a press conference at the Capitol in Washington, on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020.STEFANI REYNOLDS/NYT
WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders brokered a deal on a roughly $900 billion relief bill Sunday night, with promises to pass the legislation as soon as possible.
The bill would extend aid to millions of struggling households through stimulus checks, enhanced federal unemployment benefits, aid for small businesses, schools, and child care, as well as for vaccine distribution.