The emerging package will include enhanced federal jobless benefits, small-business funding, and money to distribute Covid-19 vaccines. The dollar amount of the stimulus payments has not yet been determined — some aides said it could be $600 per person while others said it may be higher.
"It's not a done deal yet. But we are very close," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said. Two aides familiar with the talks said the emerging plan would seek"other avenues" to deliver assistance to state and local governments, which has been a priority of Democrats.“Of course, there is a strong desire to ensure that there are direct payments to everyday Americans who have been struggling month after month,” House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said at a press conference.
"When it comes to direct payments, I'm not opposed to them but we have to up the ante, we have to put more money into the effort," Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said on CNN."And I think it's money well spent to give to families, a helping hand at this point in our economy." "Hopefully the package comes together," Thune said."The House will move on it first and then we'll get it over here, and we can wrap things up."
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