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Congress averts shutdown, buys time for more COVID-19 talks

by Andrew TaylorLisa Mascaro
| December 14, 2020 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent a temporary government-wide funding bill to President Donald Trump on Friday that would avert a federal shutdown at midnight and buy time for on-again, off-again talks on COVID-19 aid.

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