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struggle4progress

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 02:58 PM Jul 2020

Reopen or you may lose federal funds

By COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press JULY 9, 2020 — 5:29AM

... Vice President Mike Pence announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be issuing new guidance next week ... but "the president said today we just don’t want the guidance to be too tough” ...

... Pence suggested at a coronavirus task force briefing that future COVID-19 relief bills could be tied to reopening schools as one way “to give states a strong incentive and encouragement to get kids back in school” ...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said ... “School reopenings are a state decision, period ... It’s not up to the president of the United States” ...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made reopening schools a priority ...

https://www.startribune.com/trump-pushes-state-local-leaders-to-reopen-schools-in-fall/571669402/

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