US lawmakers reach deal on huge Covid-19 relief package

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Capitol Hill negotiators have sealed a deal on an almost 1 trillion dollar Covid-19 economic relief package&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The agreement delivers extra help to businesses and individuals and provides money to deliver vaccines across the US&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The agreement&comma; announced by Senate leaders&comma; would establish a temporary 300 dollar per week supplemental jobless benefit and 600 dollar direct stimulus payments to most Americans&comma; along with a new round of subsidies for hard-hit businesses and money for schools&comma; healthcare providers and renters facing eviction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The House was expected to vote on the legislation on Monday&comma; said a spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The House would pass a one-day stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown at midnight on Sunday&period; The Senate was likely to vote on Monday too&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There will be another major rescue package for the American people&comma;” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in announcing the agreement for a relief bill that would total almost 900 billion dollars&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is packed with targeted policies to help struggling Americans who have already waited too long&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A breakthrough came late on Saturday in a fight over Federal Reserve emergency powers that was resolved by the Senate’s top Democrat&comma; Chuck Schumer of New York&comma; and conservative Republican Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania&period; That led to a final round of negotiations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The final agreement is the largest spending measure yet&period; It combines Covid-19 relief with a 1&period;4 trillion dollar government-wide funding plan and lots of other unrelated measures on taxes&comma; health&comma; infrastructure and education&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Passage is nearing as coronavirus cases and deaths spike and evidence piles up that the economy is struggling&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It would be the first significant legislative response to the pandemic since the 1&period;8 trillion dollar CARES Act passed virtually unanimously in March&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The legislation was held up by months of dysfunction&comma; posturing and bad faith&period; But talks turned serious last week as lawmakers on both sides finally faced the deadline of acting before leaving Washington for Christmas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68cd3d0a33237">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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