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congress increase direct payments from $600 to $2,000. send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a covid relief package. reporter: members of his own administration had promised money would be in americans pockets before the new year. people are going to see this money the beginning of next week. reporter: even one of the president s closest allies, senator lindsey graham, calling the bill imperfect, but saying, the sooner the bill becomes law, the better. democrats say the president should have weighed in earlier. they didn t get any feedback from the president. people are hurting right now. reporter: also uncertain, federal unemployment benefits and eviction protections set to expire at the end of the year. lisa mistretta was waiting for months for congress to act. she told us that $600 check wouldn t go far. now saying any further delay would be catastrophic. we will have zero income coming into our households, because this packa
After months of failed negotiations, Congress finally reached a deal over the weekend on a stimulus package.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said, We can finally report what our nation has needed to hear for a very long time – more help is on the way.
The $900 billion package is expected to include $300 billion for small businesses, $300 in additional weekly unemployment aid, and a $600 stimulus check to millions of Americans. That s half of what the government sent out back in the spring. The earliest people could see those checks is January. After a long and arduous year, after a year full of bad news, finally we have some good news to deliver to the American people, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said.