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Biden: Governors and mayors need $350 billion to fight COVID

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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden met with a bipartisan group of governors and mayors at the White House on Friday as part of his push to give financial relief from the coronavirus pandemic to state and local governments — a clear source of division with Republican lawmakers who view the spending as wasteful.

As part of a $1.9 trillion coronavirus package, Biden wants to send $350 billion to state and local governments and tribal governments.

While Republicans in Congress have largely objected to this initiative, Biden's push has some GOP support among governors and mayors. “You folks are all on the front lines and dealing with the crisis since day one,” Biden said at the start of the Oval Office meeting. “They’ve been working on their own

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