The largest aid package the UNITED states has ever seen, is adopted in Congress and signed by the president.
president of the UNITED states, Donald Trump, has on Friday evening Danish time put his signature on the largest bailout in U.S. history.
Earlier, House of Representatives, as expected, voted yes to coronapakken, which provides financial assistance for the 2200 billion u.s. dollars.
the Sum amounts to almost 15.000 billion Danish kroner.
crisis package to get the citizens and enterprises to the rescue, affected by the economic consequences of the outbreak of the coronavirus.
the Law was adopted in the Congress of the second chamber, the Senate, on Wednesday evening.
With Trumps signature is the law in force, and thus can americans expect an economic boost from the state.
Millions of families, which brands to the economic downturn because of coronakrisen, can each get up to 3000 dollars in hand. This corresponds to about 20,000 crowns.
In the package is allocated to 290 billion dollar for the american families.
The hardest-hit companies can get a share of the 500 billion dollars given in aid to them.
Smaller companies are allocated a pool of 350 billion to.
There is set of $ 250 billion for unemployment benefits for the millions who lose their jobs or have been sent home without pay.
Thursday showed figures from the US ministry of labour, that 3.3 million americans volunteered available in the last week.
It is the highest number ever and an explosive increase compared to the week before, which featured 282.000 new available.
the Package also contains at least 100 billion u.s. dollars in aid to hospitals and other parts of the healthcare system.
the Package arrived pretty quickly considering how fragmented the political landscape in the UNITED states is. It emphasises that the politicians take the threat of a pandemic seriously, take note of the news agency Reuters.
the UNITED states has almost 93.000 confirmed smittetilfælde of coronaviruses. It is the highest number of confirmed infected people in any country in the world.
U.s. authorities have registered 1380 deaths among people who were infected with the coronavirus, shows a statement from the Johns Hopkins University on Friday.
at Least five of the Congress in the total of 535 members – one senator and four members of the House of Representatives – are infected with the coronavirus. The latest is democrat Joe Cunningham and republican Mike Kelly, who on Friday both got the message that they have tested positive.
Over 30 other u.s. congressmen have gone into voluntary quarantine to prevent the possible infection to spread.
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