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Judge: U.S. must release $679M in tribal virus relief funds

by Associated Press
| June 17, 2020 12:03 AM

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department must release $679 million in coronavirus relief funding for tribes that it intended to withhold while a court challenge over the agency's initial round of payments to tribal governments played out in court, a federal judge ruled late Monday.

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