Unsanitized: The American Rescue Plan Joe Bidenâs $1.9 trillion package for public health and economic relief from the coronavirus. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for January 15, 2021. First Response Well we now have the Biden plan for responding to the COVID-19 crisis, which he calls the American Rescue Plan. And we can definitely say itâs big ($1.9 trillion), ambitious, and detailed. Whether it can pass into law, and how long the Biden administration will dither until finding the only strategy that can succeed, is another matter. I donât have a lot of new thoughts beyond what I said yesterday, so let me just lay out whatâs in this thing: