US President-elect Joe Biden has unveiled a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus plan for the coronavirus-sapped US economy before he takes office next week.
If passed by Congress, it would include $1tn for households, with direct payments of $1,400 to all Americans.
The relief proposal includes $415bn to fight the virus and $440bn for small businesses.
Biden, a Democrat, has promised to beat the pandemic that has killed more than 388,000 people in the US.
Each day brings well over 200,000 new cases in the US and the daily death toll sometimes tops 4,000.
In a primetime speech on Thursday night from his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, Biden said: “A crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight and there’s no time to waste.”
“The very health of our nation is at stake,” he added. “We have to act and we have to act now.”
