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(Bloomberg) – Illinois lawmakers early Sunday approved a budget of about $40 billion for the year starting in July that relies on federal loans to close the revenue shortfall exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.

The budget for fiscal 2021 maintains most funding levels from a year earlier and boosts pension payments and spending on health and human services. It expects to close the projected deficit of as much as $7.4 billion partly by borrowing as much as $5 billion from the Federal Reserve’s Municipal Liquidity Facility.

Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker has also said he’s seeking more than $7 billion in federal aid to make up for lost revenue amid the virus outbreak. Illinois has the third highest number of Covid-19 cases in the U.S.

“These are unprecedented times,” Senator Heather Steans, a Democrat, said late Saturday before the vote. “We have many unknowns right now. This budget is in fact, then, putting in place a preservation mode so that we don’t drastically cut resources and services and programs at a time that we desperately need to provide those services to folks around the state.

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Now with her new autobiography, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey From Refugee to Congresswoman, due out this month, the Minnesota congresswoman is reclaiming her narrative.

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doesn't matter dems torpedoed Flynn, now the Russians are doing it and dems are responsible for that

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pratt_and_John_Smith

James Pratt (1805–1835),[1][2] also known as John Pratt, and John Smith (1795–1835)[1][2] were two London men who, in November 1835, became the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.[3] Pratt and Smith were arrested in August of that year after being convicted of having sex in the room of another man, William Bonill.