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Booker: Proposed COVID-19 relief bill is 'far short' of desired pandemic aid for states and communities

Booker: Proposed COVID-19 relief bill is 'far short' of desired pandemic aid for states and communities

Sen. (D-N.J.) on Wednesday night said that the $900 billion coronavirus relief bill that Congress is on the edge of passing fails to provide “robust funding” to communities of color that have been hardest hit by the pandemic. Booker made the comments at a virtual hosted…