Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Another COVID relief package is nearly on its way, eight wrenching months after Americans received their onetime stimulus checks. A sprawling $900-billion pandemic relief bill was passed by both houses of Congress on Monday night. It now awaits President Trump’s signature. Advertisement As my D.C. colleague Jennifer Haberkorn reports, congressional leaders in both parties were under mounting pressure to approve legislation to respond to the pandemic in the face of expiring programs and a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases around the country, prompting restrictions on movement and business closures.