The US Senate has approved fiscal stimulus legislation worth $2tn to prop up the American economy during the coronavirus pandemic, in a bipartisan vote after a week of tense negotiations between the Trump administration and Congress.
The upper chamber passed the bill by 96 to 0, overcoming an eleventh-hour protest by a group of Republican senators who opposed the expansion of unemployment benefits, one of the central provisions of the package.
The stimulus package will now move to a vote in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives on Friday, before it can be signed and enacted by US President Donald Trump.
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