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Trump admin opposes extending enhanced unemployment benefit

by Associated Press
| June 9, 2020 4:03 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration opposes a Democratic proposal to extend a $600 per week federal unemployment benefit approved in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia said Tuesday.

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