PUBLISHED 5:47 AM ET Dec. 17, 2020 PUBLISHED 5:47 AM EST Dec. 17, 2020
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A $900 billion COVID-19 stimulus package is heading toward a final agreement in Washington. It s a breakthrough for who will benefit: People who have lost their jobs amid the pandemic and will have their benefits extended. Small businesses that are trying to be made partially whole as new cases surge throughout the country and keeping people home.
The losers: State governments, and local governments, that have lost billions of dollars in revenue and have been pushing for direct aid since the spring.
The final COVID-19 relief measure of the Congress has been under discussion since the spring, but the talks remained locked in neutral as cases began to pile up in parts of the nation s Sun Belt, but largely flattened in New York, which had been an epicenter.