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Trump, Congress avert shutdown, buy time for COVID-19 talks

by Andrew TaylorLisa Mascaro
| December 11, 2020 4:02 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a temporary government-wide funding bill into law on Friday, averting a federal shutdown at midnight and buying Congress time for on-again, off-again talks on COVID-19 aid.

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