Updates to the second stimulus test: Joe Biden, a top Democrat, is behind the bipartisan COVID aid bill, hoping to break through for months

Democrats have taken a $ 908 billion approach from moderate sensors Joe Manchin, DW.Va., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, among others. It will create $ 300 a week in unemployment, send $ 160 billion to help state and local governments, boost schools and universities, revive popular business payroll subsidies, and save transit systems and airlines.