Source: Jim Saksa, ROLL CALL, 4/23/20


As House members return to Washington to vote on a $483.4 billion interim COVID-19 aid bill Thursday, state and local governments say their budgets can’t wait much longer for federal relief. Despite initial Democratic efforts to include $150 billion for states, the package the Senate passed Tuesday didn't include funding for budgets ravaged by the economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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