1. A stimulus deal with as much as $900 billion in pandemic relief appears near.

The plan congressional leaders are discussing includes another round of direct stimulus payments to Americans and additional unemployment benefits. While the details are not final as of this writing, the package is also expected to provide billions of dollars for vaccine distribution and support for schools and small businesses.

The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, told fellow Republicans that Georgia’s senators were “getting hammered” for Congress’s failure to deliver a bill and that enacting the measure could help them in their closely watched January runoffs.

Source: New York Times

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