Congressional Leaders Reach Deal On $900 Billion COVID-19 Relief Package

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December 20th, 2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, wears a protective mask while walking through the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. Congressional negotiators cleared the last significant obstacle for pandemic relief legislation with a compromise in a dispute over the future of Federal Reserve emergency lending programs, setting up a possible vote on Sunday.

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Updated at 7:05 p.m. ET

After months of partisan squabbling, congressional leaders have reached agreement on a nearly $900 billion COVID-19 relief package.

“At long last, we have the bipartisan breakthrough the country has needed,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor Sunday evening.

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