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Biden ordering stopgap help as talks start on big aid plan

by Josh Boak
| January 22, 2021 3:06 AM

BALTIMORE (AP) — President Joe Biden took executive action Friday to speed a stopgap measure of financial relief to millions of Americans affected by the coronavirus pandemic while Congress begins to consider his much larger $1.9 trillion package.

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