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Romney pitches $1,000 checks as Utah restaurants, bars close

by Associated Press
| March 16, 2020 3:30 PM

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican Sen. Mitt Romney wants the federal government to send $1,000 checks to every American to help the country cope with the coronavirus outbreak causing widespread closures at restaurants, bars and other businesses around the country, including the capital of his adopted home state of Utah.

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