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The US House of Representatives has decided on another major economic stimulus package because of the Corona crisis.
The package of measures with a volume of around 900 billion dollars (about 737 billion euros) was adopted with 359 to 53 votes.
It now needs the approval of the Senate, in which voting should also take place late on Monday evening (local time).
The package is intended to help financially struggling citizens, provide impetus for the troubled economy and provide additional funds for vaccinations and the fight against the coronavirus.
The Democratic and Republican leaderships in Congress agreed on the package on Sunday after months of negotiations.
In the spring, the US Congress had recently launched stimulus packages totaling around 2.7 trillion dollars, which corresponded to more than ten percent of annual economic output.
The new legislative package includes additional financial aid for small and medium-sized businesses and a temporary increase in unemployment benefits of $ 300 per week.
All citizens below an annual income limit should also receive a one-time direct aid payment of 600 dollars per person.
Additional money for schools and for distributing the vaccines in the country is also planned.
The legislative package, with which, among other things, the federal government's budget was passed, comprises more than 5000 pages.
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The corona pandemic has also plunged the US into a serious crisis, both economically and in terms of the health of the people in the country.
Around 18 million people have been infected with the corona virus there so far.
In absolute terms, that's more than in any other country in the world.
Almost 320,000 people have died in connection with Covid-19.