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</p> The aid bill also includes substantial funding to help hospitals and doctors prepare for a wave of patients and funding for government departments working to reduce the virus’s impact.
</p> The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that overall during the next decade, the tax provisions of the massive relief bill will cost $591 billion.
</p> [Thursday likely earliest stimulus bill gets to Trump’s desk]</p> Text of the stimulus package will be added to an unrelated bill previously passed by the House.
</p> But for the $3 billion for contractors, the bill matches what Airlines for America, an industry group, had called for.
</p> [Thursday likely earliest stimulus bill gets to Trump’s desk]</p> Of those, the largest chunk — $3.8 billion — would go to the Defense Health Program, which provides medical care to Defense Department
</p> “This is not going to be the last bill,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on the “PBS Newshour” on Wednesday.
</p> The bill would create a $150 billion Coronavirus Relief Fund for state, territorial, tribal and local governments. All but $11 billion would go directly to states.
</p> [Thursday likely earliest stimulus bill gets to Trump’s desk]</p> Among the other major elements of the bill, it seemed like most of the key details had been settled on based on various drafts and
</p> “Thanks to the unity and insistence of Senate and House Democrats, the bill has moved a great deal closer to America’s workers,” the California Democrat said in a statement.
</p> An earlier version of the appropriations package in the bill would have given the department borrowing authority up to $50 billion — a $20 billion increase over the current borrowing limit from the
</p> The bill includes a so-called “Marshall Plan” for hospitals that Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., demanded.
</p> The timing of a House vote obviously depends on when the Senate acts. </p> “We’ll see the bill, and see when the Senate votes.
</p> $139B to state and local governments The bill stipulates that within 30 days of enactment the Treasury secretary shall distribute funds to state and local governments.
Legislative Branch agencies would get a $93.1 million infusion of cash through the emergency economic relief bill to mitigate the novel coronavirus, including millions to both help offices shift to working
He said he’ll vote for the underlying bill anyway if it fails, but believes Congress will still end up needing to fix the provision and that data that emerges in the coming weeks will prove that.
</p> The $100 billion for hospitals in the bill (S 3548) — almost a third of the package — would provide reimbursement to cover health care expenses and lost revenue due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
</p> While some of the legislative language had yet to be drafted, officials said they expected to circulate a bill Wednesday that would provide cash payments to families, loans to businesses big and
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> CDC recommends that asymptomatic people with a risk of developing COVID-19 self-isolate.
</p> [Health industry scrambles for funding in third coronavirus bill]</p> Just a day earlier, Pelosi had introduced a competing House bill that would offer more than $2.5 trillion to counter the pain
</p> Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a onetime Trump antagonist turned staunch ally, called on the president to recall Mnuchin and stop negotiating at all. “Pass the damn bill. Stop negotiating.