This historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country,” said Biden after fulfilling his first promise as president of the USA .

The $1.9 trillion package is a big bet by the party that it will restore a sense of normalcy by the 2022 elections and that voters will defy history and reward Democrats with more seats in Congress, quoted The New York Times.

One of the biggest step of the Biden government after coming to power on 20 January 2021 was announcement of the 1.9 trillion covid relief package for the American citizens. The relief package was signed into law on 12th March 2021. Making America take one giant leap in defeating the virus. Roughly 2 lakh crore in Indian rupee.

Best bites of the package:-

• Every adult in America will receive $1400. This may vary depending on your family income.
• Unemployed population will get additional $300 for four months. This moves become acute as the unemployment in USA reaches 10 million.
• Nearly 30 billion dollars will be sent to aid the hospitality sector under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
• A total 480 billion dollars will go in boosting the fight against this pandemic. This means $350 billion will distributed to local, tribal ,state and territorial governments. For coronavirus testing and vaccine distribution.
• It includes billions of dollars for public health programs and veterans’ health care under the “Affordable Care Act”.

Comparing U.S.A’s stimulus package with India’s.

The U.S.A.’s stimulus package is worth $1.9 trillion whereas the Indian stimulus package or the economic package is worth ₹30 trillion or 30 lakh crore which is 15% of India’s GDP. It’s an addition to funds allocated since last year under different schemes.

Best bites of the package:-

₹500 billion directed towards the creation of temporary jobs by the government of India.

M.G.N.R.E.A.G.A. was given its highest allocation of ₹1 lakh crore.

Collateral free loans of ₹3 lakh crore for MSMEs.

Allocation of ₹50,000 crore, 25% reduction in existing rates of Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) & Tax Collection at Sources (TCS) from till March 31, 2021.

But the issue of women was left unattended as there were no specific schemes for women.

In the midst of this the good news is that vaccination drive going on in full pace in U.S.A. and India but the cases are still surging around the world. AstraZeneca the British–Swedish pharmaceutical and biotechnology multinational has cleared that blood cot is not associated with vaccination. We need to take more wiser and healthier decisions about yourselves and wait till at least 75% of the population get vaccinated and a large group of people develop immunity. There’s still some time for the morning sun to appear.