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Lawmakers act to avert shutdown, buying time for COVID talks

by Andrew Taylor
| December 9, 2020 2:03 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Still spinning their wheels on COVID-19 relief, lawmakers grabbed a one-week government funding extension on Wednesday that buys time for more talks — though there is considerable disagreement over who is supposed to be taking the lead from there.

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