The ink is still drying on the $1.9 trillion dollar COVID-19 relief bill that passed both houses of Congress this month before being approved by President Biden on Thursday afternoon.

BREAKING: President Biden signs $1.9T Covid relief bill into law; ​includes $1,400 checks, $300/wk jobless benefits, child allowance of up to $3,600 for one year, $125B for K-12 schools, $30B for public transit, $25B for rental assistance, $14B for vaccine distribution. pic.twitter.com/M5hKayVTIk

— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 11, 2021

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said stimulus payments will be directly deposited into Americans’ bank accounts as early as this weekend.

“People can expect to start seeing direct deposits hit their bank accounts as early as this weekend.”

— WH Press Sec. Jen Psaki on COVID relief stimulus checks pic.twitter.com/W7GpgODaXo

— The Recount (@therecount) March 11, 2021

At the signing ceremony in the Oval Office, the president said:

“This historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country and giving the people of this nation, working people, the middle class folks, people who built the country a fighting chance.”

The signing was originally scheduled for Friday, but Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, said the proofed copy of the legislation arrived early and they wanted “to move as fast as possible.”

President Biden plans to promote the legislation in a prime-time speech to the nation shortly after 8pm Thursday evening. The New York Times reports that the televised address is the start of a wider campaign touting the benefits of the bill:

The campaign will include travel by the president and Vice President Kamala Harris across multiple states, events that will feature a wide range of cabinet members emphasizing the legislation’s themes, as well as endorsements from Republican mayors, according to administration officials.

For more about on what’s inside the bill, read News & Guts previous coverage.