Second COVID relief package: Here’s what’s inside
Congress passes $900 billion in COVID aid, $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill
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Benjamin Franklin on the $100 U.S. bill. (Pixlr)
It awaits President Donald Trump’s signature.
Here are highlights of the measure with overall funding amounts and specific amounts for some but not necessarily all initiatives.
COVID relief
Unemployment insurance ($120 billion)
Revives supplemental federal pandemic unemployment benefits but at $300 per week through March 14 instead of the $600 per week benefit that expired in July. Extends special pandemic benefits for “gig” workers and extends the maximum period for state-paid jobless benefits to 50 weeks.
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After days of frenzied negotiations, Congress late Monday night passed a massive eleventh-hour bill that combined $900 billion in COVID-19 relief with a $1.4 trillion omnibus government spending measure.
In addition to reviving a federal unemployment boost for millions of out-of-work Americans and sending a second $600 stimulus check to individuals including children, the $2.3 trillion catchall package, which will fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year, addresses a spate of legislation on taxes, energy, education and health care.
But the mammoth 5,593-page bill – part of an omnibus appropriations package that wraps 12 spending measures into one – also contains a raft of unexpected items that are not directly related to government funding or pandemic relief efforts, such as establishing two new branches of the Smithsonian museum near the National Mall, creating