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Hogan from Maryland resists efforts to expand COVID-19 relief by Ovita Wiggins and Irene Cox – An effort by Maryland Democrats to expand eligibility for Governor Larry Hogan’s Covid-19 stimulus plan, including for noncitizens, received a response from the President The Republican executive, who Hogan said could jeopardize passage of the legislation and the assistance it would provide to others. “Whatever they try to do to change the bill that has been passed unanimously by the Senate … it threatens the bill,” Hogan said Thursday. However, the Means Committee voted to amend the legislation to include non-citizens who pay income taxes. The Latino Legislative Rally in Maryland pushed for the change and garnered the support of the black legislature, and hours before the vote, a senior Hogan aide told the head of the black assembly that expanding eligibility for aid could jeopardize the legislation.