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Trump, GOP soften on opposition to $600 jobless benefit

by Associated Press
| August 3, 2020 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and its GOP allies appear to be retreating from their opposition to a $600-per-week supplemental unemployment benefit that has propped up the economy and family budgets but is expiring Friday.

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