Biden to push COVID stimulus bill at Wisconsin town hall event
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Biden will hold town hall in Wisconsin on Tuesday to build support for bill, which faces opposition from Republicans.
United States President Joe Biden will press his case for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 pandemic relief bill during an event on Tuesday in the US state of Wisconsin, which has been hard-hit by the pandemic and its economic fallout. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Biden will hold a town hall in Milwaukee, the state’s largest city, on Tuesday evening. Wisconsin is “a state where people have been impacted by the pandemic, they have been impacted by the economic downturn”, Psaki said during a news conference earlier in the day.
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