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US House Passes $2T Coronavirus Rescue Package, Rushes It to Trump

Katherine Gypson

   WASHINGTON - The largest relief package in U.S. history is expected to
   be soon signed into law by President Donald Trump, after the $2
   trillion coronavirus aid legislation passed a last-minute hurdle in the
   U.S. House of Representatives.

   The unprecedented legislation provides billions of dollars in funding
   to hospitals, small businesses, industries hard-hit by quarantines as
   well as directly sending cash to most low and middle-class Americans in
   an attempt to contain massive economic damage and lessen its impact.

   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi aimed to pass the bill Friday using a
   procedural maneuver that would have prevented lawmakers from having to
   fly in from around the nation to vote in person on Capitol Hill.

   But Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of the southern state of
   Kentucky objected to passage of the stimulus by a voice vote, saying he
   objected to how much the rescue effort would add to the U.S. debt,
   which already totals more than $23 trillion.

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