House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats will seek a massive federal cash infusion for struggling state and local governments that would be equivalent to the nearly $700 billion Congress has pumped into struggling businesses that have shut down due to the coronavirus outbreak.

“There will be a bill, and it will be expensive,” the California Democrat told reporters Friday in the U.S. Capitol.

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