Illinois’ two U.S. senators, Majority Whip Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, praised Saturday’s passage of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief plan after their Saturday votes.

The massive spending bill, which critics say contains hundreds of billions of dollars in wasteful spending unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic, passed Saturday on a party-line, 50-49 vote with one Republican absent.

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