JACKSON, Miss. — The federal government will put $600 million toward repairing the troubled water system in Mississippi’s capital city, a project that the mayor has said could cost billions of dollars.
Funding for Jackson water is included in a $1.7 trillion federal spending bill that passed the Senate on Thursday and the House on Friday.
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