RELATED: Read the text: House Democrats publish full $1.9T COVID-19 relief bill — including $1,400 checksThe bill would provide one-time $1,400 payments to millions of low- and middle-income people, increase child tax credits that could be paid in advance and monthly and provide extra $400 weekly federal unemployment benefits through August.
It would also provide hundreds of billions of dollars for state and local governments, shuttered schools, COVID-19 vaccines and testing and struggling airlines, restaurants and other businesses.The fate of Biden’s minimum wage proposal remains hazy.
Facing resistance in Congress, the president has acknowledged that he will likely have to omit the measure and re-introduce it later as a separate.