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$1.9T American Rescue Plan Staunches Airline Worker Layoffs

President Joe Biden on Thursday signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which includes among other transportation industry funding $14 billion in direct aid to airlines for payroll support programs. Like previous emergency funding packages disbursed to the hard-hit travel category, including those provided in the $2.2 trillion CARES Act last March and the $900 billion coronavirus relief…

Senate passes $1.9t Covid relief bill

After a session that saw staff put in 36-hour shifts and U.S. senators voting their way through more than a dozen amendments, the upper chamber today passed President Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill. Senators narrowed the eligibility for stimulus checks, trimmed the federal boost to unemployment benefits and removed a provision to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. — Read…

Highlights of the $1.9T COVID bill nearing final passage

The Senate approved a sweeping pandemic relief package over Republican opposition on Saturday, moving President Joe Biden closer to a milestone political victory that would provide $1,400 checks for most American and direct billions of dollars to schools, state and local governments, and businesses. The bill cleared by a party-line vote of 50-49 after a marathon overnight voting session and now…

Senate Dems sorting final details of $1.9T virus relief bill – Long Island Business News

Democrats sorted through lingering disagreements over emergency jobless benefits and other issues Tuesday and prepared to commence Senate debate on a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan that would deliver a major victory to President Joe Biden. With Democrats having no margin for error in the evenly split 50-50 Senate, Biden was expected to urge them on by conference call. Senate Majority Leader…