Biden: ‘Price tag will be high’ for next COVID-19 bill

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President-elect Joe Biden said he will lay out an economic package in the trillions of dollars, including increased direct payments for taxpayers.

“We need more direct relief flowing to families, small businesses, including finishing the job of getting the people $2,000 in relief,” Biden said in remarks Friday in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden said he would detail his plan next Thursday, again calling the package Congress passed at the end of the year “a down payment.”

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