In Arizona, a small state near California, nearly 400,000 Americans have received a check for $ 300, the CNN television station reported on Saturday. This aid, planned for tens of millions of citizens, was decided by Donald Trump. The American president hopes that his beneficiaries will remember this during the elections in early November.
As the Covid-19 epidemic crippled the economy, a federal system of assistance to the unemployed, amounting to $ 600 per week, was put in place in early April. It ended on July 31. Since then, Republicans and Democrats have scarred in Congress on this subject, without reaching an agreement. Democrats wanted to extend the original plan while Republicans wanted to limit financial aid to $ 200 per week.
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In the absence of an agreement, the President of the United States decided on August 8 to draw on an emergency fund from the Federal Disaster Management Agency (Fema). Up to 44 billion
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