{"id":47758,"date":"2021-03-10T14:46:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T19:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=47758"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T19:46:50","slug":"1-9-trillion-covid-19-relief-bill-heads-to-president-biden-for-signature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/03\/1-9-trillion-covid-19-relief-bill-heads-to-president-biden-for-signature\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill heads to President Biden for signature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Democratic-controlled House gave its final approval to&nbsp;President Joe Biden&#8217;s&nbsp;$1.9 trillion COVID-19&nbsp;relief package&nbsp;Wednesday, sending the bill with $1,400 checks, billions to help schools and colleges reopen, and funding for vaccine distribution to the president for his signature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill sailed through the House despite some complaints from progressive Democrats who believed too many concessions were made to more moderate Democrats when the bill passed the Senate on Saturday.&nbsp;The final vote was 220-211,&nbsp;with one&nbsp;Democrat&nbsp;voting against the bill and all Republicans opposing it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The House vote was the final legislative hurdle for the legislation. It now goes to Biden, who will sign the bill into law Friday, the White House said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the bill&#8217;s provisions:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Provides most Americans earning up to\u00a0$75,000 a $1,400 check.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li>Extends a $300 weekly federal boost to unemployment benefits through August.\u00a0<\/li><li>Sends $350 billion to state and local governments whose revenue\u00a0has declined because of COVID-19&#8217;s impact on the economy.<\/li><li>Allocates $130 billion to help fully reopen schools and\u00a0colleges.<\/li><li>Allots $30 billion to help renters and landlords whether economic losses.\u00a0<\/li><li>Devotes $50 billion for small-business assistance.\u00a0<\/li><li>Dedicates $160 billion for vaccine development,\u00a0distribution, and related needs.\u00a0<\/li><li>Expands the child tax credit up to $3,600 per child.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic-controlled House gave its final approval to&nbsp;President Joe Biden&#8217;s&nbsp;$1.9 trillion COVID-19&nbsp;relief package&nbsp;Wednesday, sending the bill with $1,400 checks, billions to help schools and colleges reopen, and funding for vaccine&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}