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Biden unveils $1.9tn US economic relief package
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![]() Biden unveils $1.9tn US economic relief package If passed by Congress, it would include $1tn for households, with direct payments of $1,400 to all Americans. The relief proposal includes $415bn to fight the virus and $440bn for small businesses. Mr Biden, a Democrat, has promised to beat the pandemic that has killed more than 385,000 people in the US. He campaigned last year vowing to do a better job handling the virus than President Donald Trump, a Republican. Mr Biden's proposal comes as a winter surge of the coronavirus breaks records. Each day brings well over 200,000 new cases and the daily death toll sometimes tops 4,000.
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