Good morning. I'm Arjun Singh from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Monday, December 21st.

James is out for the holidays, but I'll be here instead with the stories you need to know.

In today's news, a CDC advisory panel says adults over 75 and frontline essential workers should be the next groups to get a coronavirus vaccine.

And countries across Europe halt flights from Britain over concerns about coronavirus mutation.

But first, the big idea.

Senate leadership announced a bipartisan deal. But first, the big idea.

Senate leadership announced a bipartisan deal on an approximately 900 billion dollar economic relief package late Sunday afternoon that would deliver emergency aid to a faltering economy

and a nation besieged by

surgeon coronavirus cases. Our reporters Jeff Stein and Mike Debonus report

that after months of contentious negotiations and seemingly intractable

partisan gridlock, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority and

the tractable partisan gridlock, Senate Majority Leader,

Chuck Schumer, took to the Senate floor

to say that a deal had been finalized

and could be quickly approved.

The emerging stimulus package

was expected to direct hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to jobless Americans,

ailing businesses, and other critical economic needs that have grown as the pandemic ravages the country and batters the economy.

The House and Senate on Sunday night approved a one-day extension of government funding to allow

the final bill tax on the relief package to be written.

The stopgap measure must still be signed by President Trump to

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