Romney's COVID funding bill would gut U.S. Treasury tribal relief programs by hundreds of millions of dollars

Utah senator strikes a bipartisan deal, and poorer tribes will suffer.

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WASHINGTON — A bipartisan U.S. Senate COVID relief bill with companion legislation in the U.S. House is quickly moving through both chambers. It would gut U.S. Department of the Treasury tribal pandemic programming by hundreds of millions of dollars. 

U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on April 4 announced major progress on bipartisan talks sur…