On Monday night, the House voted to increase COVID-19 relief checks to $2,000.
This met President Trump’s demand for bigger payments and it sends the bill to the GOP-controlled senate.
Democrats led with 275-134, their majority favoring the additional assistance and dozens of Republicans joined in approval.
Congress had previously settled on smaller $600 payments in a compromise relief bill.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared, “Republicans have a choice: Vote for this legislation or vote to deny the American people.”
The package the president signed into law has two parts: $900 billion in COVID-19 aid and $1.4 trillion to fund government agencies.
The bill also revives the weekly pandemic unemployment benefit boost of $300 through March 14.
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