United States President Joe Biden has urged the Senate to quickly pass the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which was approved by the House on Saturday. “Now the bill moves to the United States Senate where I hope it will receive quick action... we have no time to waste,” Biden said at the White House on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported.

“If we act now - decisively, quickly, and boldly - we can finally get ahead of this virus. We can finally get our economy moving again,” he said. “And the people of this country have suffered far too much for too long. We need to relieve that suffering,” said the president. “And it’s time to act.” US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen also said on Saturday on the Twitter that as an economist and an American, she applauds “the House’s favourable vote on the American Rescue Plan.”