WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Wednesday unanimously backed a $2 trillion bill targeted at helping out of work workers and industries injured by the coronavirus epidemic, along with supplying billions of dollars to purchase urgently needed medical devices.
After bitter settlements, the deeply divided Senate came together and passed the costs by a 96 -0 vote, which sent the huge stimulus package to your home of Representatives for a vote on Friday.
President Donald Trump, whose leading assistants assisted negotiate the bipartisan measure, guaranteed to sign it into law as quickly as it reaches his desk. “I will sign it right away,” Trump told press reporters on Wednesday.
The rescue package – which would be the biggest ever gone by Congress – includes a $500 billion fund to assist hard-hit industries and a comparable amount for direct payments of as much as $3,000 apiece to countless U.S. families.
The legislation will also supply $350 billion for small-business loans, $250 billion for expanded unemployment aid and at least $100 billion for health centers and associated health systems.
Senate leaders kept in mind the historical nature of the difficulty postured by the coronavirus, which the Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called “a weird and evil illness.”
The package is meant to flood the economy with money in a bid to stem the impact of an intensifying epidemic that has actually killed more than 900 people in the United States and contaminated at least 60,000
Just two other countries, China and Italy, have more coronavirus cases and the World Health Company has warne