Biden vows to lay out groundwork for next relief package

Washington, Jan 9 : US President-elect Joe Biden said that he would be laying out the groundwork for the next Covid-19 relief package next week, as the country’s economic recovery stalls amid the surging pandemic.
“As I’ve said before, the bipartisan Covid relief package passed in December is an important step, but just a downpayment,” Biden said in a speech on Friday in Wilmington, Delaware, referring to the $900 billion relief plan recently approved by Congress.
“Next week, I will be laying out the groundwork for the next Covid economic relief package that meets this critical moment for our economy and country,” the President-elect added.
Citing the newly released December 2020 employment data, Biden said the report, which showed a job loss of 140,000, is the the first negative jobs report since the height of the pandemic in the spring.
“More people have just lost a job while many have been out of work for a long time. The ongoing gap in Black and Latino unemployment remains much too large,” Biden said.
“With the pandemic raging, people are losing work and losing hope,” he said.