{"id":23069,"date":"2020-03-27T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T21:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23069"},"modified":"2020-03-27T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T21:30:16","slug":"president-trump-signs-largest-economic-rescue-bill-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23069","title":{"rendered":"President Trump signs largest economic rescue bill in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has signed an unprecedented\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtkr.com\/news\/coronavirus\/house-votes-friday-on-2-2t-coronavirus-aid-a\">$2.2 trillion economic rescue package<\/a>\u00a0into law, after swift and near-unanimous action by Congress this week.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the largest economic relief bill in U.S. history, and it comes amid some new grim economic news.<\/p>\n<p>The package will support businesses, rush resources to overburdened health care providers and help struggling families during the deepening coronavirus epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>As he signed the bill Friday, Trump declared it \u201cwill deliver urgently needed relief.\u201d He thanked members of both parties for putting Americans \u201cfirst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House passed the legislation earlier Friday by voice vote.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation will speed government payments of $1,200 to most Americans and increase jobless benefits for millions of people thrown out of work. Businesses big and small will get loans, grants and tax breaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has signed an&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-health","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23070,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23069\/revisions\/23070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}