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STATE, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS Antelope Valley Press, Sunday, February 28, 2021 B1
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Biden hails House passage of $1.9T virus bill
From Valley Press wire services
By ALAN FRAM because their budgets had bounced
Associated Press back.
WASHINGTON — The House “To my colleagues who say this bill
WORLD approved a $1.9 trillion pandemic is bold, I say it’s bloated,” said House
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy,
Ukraine sees relief bill that was championed by
President Joe Biden, the first step R-Calif. “To those who say it’s ur-
second fatal in providing another dose of aid to gent, I say it’s unfocused. To those
oxygen blast a weary nation as the measure now who say it’s popular, I say it is entirely
moves to a tense Senate. partisan.”
at hospital this “We have no time to waste,” The overall relief bill would pro-
month Biden said at the White House after vide $1,400 payments to individuals,
KYIV, Ukraine — An ex- the House passage early Saturday. extend emergency unemployment
plosion in a Ukrainian hospi- “We act now — decisively, quick- benefits through August and increase
tal ward where COVID-19 ly and boldly — we can finally get tax credits for children and federal
patients are being treated ahead of this virus. We can finally subsidies for health insurance.
has killed one person and get our economy moving again. Peo- It also provides billions for schools
injured another, authorities ple in this country have suffered far and colleges, state and local gov-
said Saturday. too much for too long.” ernments, COVID-19 vaccines and
PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/AP
The national emergencies The new president’s vision for testing, renters, food producers and
President Joe Biden speaks on the economy Saturday in the Roosevelt Room
service said in a statement infusing cash across a struggling struggling industries like airlines,
of the White House in Washington.
that the explosion occurred economy to individuals, businesses, restaurants, bars and concert venues.
in an oxygen pipe. It said 20 schools, states and cities battered by despite nearly $4 trillion in aid al- of this. But if you’re not, we’re going Moderate Democratic Reps. Jared
people were evacuated after COVID-19 passed on a near par- ready spent fighting the fallout from without you.” Golden of Maine and Kurt Schrad-
the blast at the hospital in ty-line 219-212 vote. That ships the the disease. GOP lawmakers, they Republicans said the bill was too er of Oregon were the only two
Chernivtsi, a city about 250 bill to the Senate, where Democrats said, were out of step with a public expensive and said too few education lawmakers to cross party lines. That
miles southwest of Kyiv. seem bent on resuscitating their min- that polling finds largely views the dollars would be spent quickly to im- sharp partisan divide is making the
Saturday’s explosion was imum wage push and fights could bill favorably. mediately reopen schools. They said fight a showdown over whom voters
the second fatal oxygen erupt over state aid and other issues. “I am a happy camper tonight,” it was laden with gifts to Democratic will reward for heaping more federal
explosion at a hospital in Democrats said that mass un- Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said constituencies like labor unions and spending to combat the Coronavirus
Ukraine this month. Three employment and the half-million Friday. “This is what America needs. funneled money to Democratic-run and revive the economy atop the $4
COVID-19 patients and a American lives lost are causes to act Republicans, you ought to be a part states they suggested didn’t need it trillion approved last year.
young doctor died when an