The package includes more than $400 billion to combat the pandemic directly, including money to accelerate vaccine deployment
Sanders, who twice ran unsuccessfully for the presidential nomination, said he would move quickly in his new role to push through a robust and deficit-financed economic stimulus package soon after President-elect Joe Biden takes office
The aid will be less generous than it was in the spring and summer: $300 a week in enhanced unemployment benefits, rather than $600
Investors are advised to stay on the sidelines for now until further clarity emerges as the market has already run up ahead of fundamentals, suggest experts.
A failure to compromise would leave millions of jobless Americans in potentially dire straits as they exhaust traditional jobless benefits
There is a growing sense that the US could take on even more debt without any serious consequences
This episode of Business Insight dissects the details of the historic stimulus package.