{"id":28542,"date":"2020-12-18T17:02:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=28542"},"modified":"2020-12-23T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T16:34:18","slug":"new-relief-package-from-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/new-relief-package-from-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"<New relief package from Congress>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is set to act on a $900 billion pandemic relief package.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After months of Washington gridlock, Congress is finally delivering long-sought cash to businesses and individuals as well as resources to vaccinate a nation confronting a frightening surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths.<\/p>\n<p>According to AP News, the relief package\u00a0came together Sunday after months of battling, posturing and postelection negotiating that reined in a number of Democratic demands as the end of the congressional session approached. President-elect Joe Biden was eager for a deal to deliver long-awaited help to suffering people and a boost to the economy, even though it was less than half the size that Democrats wanted in the fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-62 Component-p-0-2-53\">Biden praised the bipartisan spirit that produced the measure, which he called \u201cjust the beginning (&#8230;) This is a model for the challenging work ahead for our nation,\u201d he said Sunday in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The package is expected to draw votes in Congress on Monday, would establish a temporary $300 per week supplemental jobless benefit and a $600 direct stimulus payment to most Americans, along with a new round of subsidies for hard-hit businesses and money for schools, health care providers and renters facing eviction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-62 Component-p-0-2-53\">House and Senate leaders planned votes for Monday, but the measure was still being completed. Lawmakers were eager to leave Washington and close out a tumultuous year.<\/p>\n<p>Delays in finishing the agreement prompted Congress to pass a one-day stopgap spending bill to prevent a government shutdown at midnight Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-62 Component-p-0-2-53\">The final agreement would be the largest spending measure yet. It combined $900 billion for COVID-19 relief with a $1.4 trillion governmentwide funding plan and lots of other unrelated measures on taxes, health, infrastructure and education. The governmentwide funding would keep the government open through September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/congress-900-billion-coronavirus-bill-75389549d3eaf2f3828b16d45c9706e6\">More details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is set to act on a $900 billion pandemic  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[99,1385,955,3640,128],"class_list":["post-28542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-congress","tag-relief-package","tag-small-businesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28545,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28542\/revisions\/28545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}