$1,400 Checks And Help For The Jobless: What's In Biden's Plan To Rescue The Economy
President-elect Joe Biden is proposing a $1.9 trillion plan to address the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic crisis.
by Scott Horsley
Jan 14, 2021
3 minutes
Updated at 8:00 pm ET
President-elect Joe Biden has long pledged he would deliver an aggressive plan to address the raging coronavirus pandemic and the painful recession it spawned.
On Thursday, he did just that, proposing an ambitious $1.9 trillion relief plan that includes $1,400 stimulus checks, additional benefits for the unemployed, as well hundreds of billions of dollars for struggling businesses and local governments.
"The crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight," Biden said during a televised address, six days
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