Future president Joe Biden will unveil this Thursday evening a plan to help the economy totaling $ 1900 billion that he wants to vote immediately and which includes direct checks of $ 1,400 to families, said two senior officials.
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The officials, who requested anonymity, also clarified that the Biden administration would ask to pass a minimum wage of $ 15 an hour, a little more than double what is currently paid federally.
This plan is ambitious but achievable, they judged.
In addition, this aid, presented as emergency measures, will be supplemented
"in the coming weeks"
by an innovative investment plan aimed at economic recovery.
Aid for states and local communities
In addition, this economic recovery plan includes aid amounting to 350 billion dollars to states and local communities, whose finances have suffered greatly from the Covid-19 pandemic, said two senior officials under on condition of anonymity.
This proposal risks arousing the ire of Republicans in the Senate, who had blocked at the end of 2020 any economic support plan including funds for municipalities.
It is likely to complicate the adoption of the Biden plan because the Democrats have a very narrow majority in Congress.