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Stopgap bill to prevent shutdown held up over farm funding

by Associated Press
| September 19, 2020 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to fashion a temporary spending bill needed to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month ran aground Friday amid a fight over farm bailout funding that's a key priority of President Donald Trump and Capitol Hill Republicans.

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