Biden reveals his financial aid and vaccination plan against Corona

The president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, revealed several decisions related to financial aid and the process of vaccination against the Corona virus.

On Friday, Biden announced that, beginning next week, he would lay the groundwork for the next financial aid package, emphasizing the need to act quickly after losing 140,000 jobs in December.

Biden said the trillion-dollar package would increase stimulus payments to Americans to $ 2,000, expand unemployment insurance, and send billions of dollars in aid to city and state governments, and act quickly. to address the economic decline and rampant epidemic in the country, according to the Washington Post.

The Democrat, who was introducing the last important member of his economic team, from his stronghold in Wilmington, Delaware, spoke about the seriousness of the situation after the worse-than-expected labor report was released on Friday.

Biden stressed during a press conference that the priority will be to accelerate vaccination against Covid-19. Additionally, “tens of billions of dollars” are needed for local and national authorities to maintain the jobs of teachers, police, firefighters and public health workers.

Biden reiterated that the $ 900 billion aid package approved at the end of last December was only a first payment. “We need more direct assistance for families and small businesses,” he said.

And it considered that $ 600, the value of the subsidies that are sent to many Americans, “is simply not enough when you have to choose between paying rent or insuring food.”

President Donald Trump had also criticized this amount, demanding that it be raised to $ 2,000, and that almost prevented the approval of the agreement on the aid package.

Biden also hopes he can quickly raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour. “I’ve been saying for a long time that we should reward work,” not the wealth of the country, he said.

The president-elect assured that his administration will guarantee that the aid money goes to the small companies most vulnerable to the crisis caused by the pandemic.