Senator Dick Durbin

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Samantha Arce is a mother of 3 who gave birth just a few days before the initial lockdown. Her place of work has since closed & her fiancé has since lost his job. They went from 2 working parents to none very quickly. UI benefits help pay hospital bills & care for their children. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jesus Morales worked for 33 years at the Drake Hotel, making up to $1,700 a week. He's been laid off due to the pandemic since March and worries about providing for his wife and 3 children. Losing his health insurance & the $600/week from unemployment would be devastating. — PolitiTweet.org

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Aileen Dimery is a lighting tech with IATSE Local 2. She hasn't worked since March. Because her job revolves around large events with thousands of people, there is simply no work. Though enhanced unemployment has stopped coming, her bills and rent have not. — PolitiTweet.org

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Andrés Moreno worked at a downtown restaurant before the pandemic. His husband also worked in the restaurant industry. They not only lost jobs – they lost their health insurance. Without unemployment benefits, they would not be able to afford coverage during this deadly pandemic — PolitiTweet.org

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Roshunda Williams was a bartender for 19 yrs at the Palmer House Hilton before being laid off in March. She made significantly more than the $600/week from unemployment & would go back to work in a heartbeat. She worries she'll lose her home & health insurance. — PolitiTweet.org

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Senate Republicans let enhanced unemployment expire today without any extension in place. That means as many as 800,000 Illinoisans will lose $600 per week in the middle of this pandemic. Here are a few of their stories: [thread] — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SenateDems have been sounding the alarm on the expiration of enhanced unemployment for months. Senate Republicans waited until this week to come up with a proposal that helps corporations over families. That delay is inexcusable & a dereliction of duty. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SenateGOP let CARES Act unemployment benefits expire today because they believe that the problem with our economy is not the millions who are unemployed, it’s that we’re giving them too much money & they won’t go back to work. That’s not an urban legend—it’s an urban lie. https://t.co/p57NNEInM7 — PolitiTweet.org

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Congress must urgently act on a bipartisan basis to respond to this public health and economic crisis and extend the $600 per week enhanced benefits. — PolitiTweet.org

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Our country is suffering right now. And there is a long road to recovery ahead of us. Unfortunately, Leader McConnell presented us a half-hearted, half-baked proposal that even those in his own party don’t agree with. — PolitiTweet.org

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This morning I was joined by a few of the more than 800,000 Illinoisans claiming unemployment benefits to highlight the need for the continuation of enhanced unemployment for Americans who have lost their jobs due to the pandemic. https://t.co/eaiqywUNjw — PolitiTweet.org

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These are just a few of the unemployed Americans who @SenateGOP think are getting too much money from enhanced unemployment benefits and who they say are too lazy to go back to work. It is unfair and wrong to turn our backs on these families in their time of need. — PolitiTweet.org

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Access to clean air should not be determined by your zip code or the color of your skin. Proud to join @SenDuckworth & @RepLBR in this effort to improve air quality protections for our nation’s most vulnerable communities. — PolitiTweet.org

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More than 150,000 Americans are dead because of COVID-19 and this Administration’s failed response. It didn’t have to be the “way it is.” And it doesn’t have to go on—President Trump has the power to save lives, but first he has to accept that responsibility. — PolitiTweet.org

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Congratulations to the team at @NASA for this successful launch. These amazing missions to Mars showcase American scientific expertise and ingenuity at their best. https://t.co/GC8ilTDPoM — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RepWexton: .@HUDgov wants to give taxpayer funded shelters a license to discriminate against trans people. I'm leading 144 of my colle… — PolitiTweet.org

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Join me on Facebook Live where I am answering questions about COVID-19 and my priorities for the next round of federal relief legislation. https://t.co/oUGB6t0SNg — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SenDuckworth & I spoke w/IL senior living facility CEOs about the difficulties they face in securing PPE. Months into this crisis, the Trump Admin still doesn't have a plan to ensure testing & PPE for frontline workers & vulnerable communities. Our seniors are suffering for it. — PolitiTweet.org

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It didn’t have to be this way. President Trump has failed the American people. He refuses responsibility and promotes quack cures to distract from his own shortcomings. This Presidency will be remembered as a tragic, national disgrace. — PolitiTweet.org

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It didn’t have to be this way. President Trump has failed the American people. He refuses responsibility and promotes quack cures to distract from his own shortcomings. This Presidency will be remembered as a tragic, national disgrace — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @washingtonpost: U.S. reports 1,400 coronavirus deaths in a day — about one per minute. Live updates: https://t.co/zICdZr89iV — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SenatorLeahy: This is the Trump-Pompeo foreign policy legacy: a gift to corrupt, ruthless dictators, all in the name of swagger and 'Am… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SenCortezMasto: I stand with #Dreamers and will not stop fighting until they have a pathway to citizenship. That’s why I support @Senat… — PolitiTweet.org

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At some point, Sen. McConnell is going to have to swallow his pride & sit down with Democrats to negotiate a federal #COVID19 relief deal on a bipartisan basis. In times of crisis, leaders are supposed to rise to the occasion—it’s time for Sen. McConnell to do just that. https://t.co/n0HbaqESlo — PolitiTweet.org

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The President doesn’t have the power to delay an election & he knows it. Instead of trying to distract from his failures by delegitimizing upcoming election, Pres. Trump should focus on building an effective response to pandemic that has killed 150k Americans & devastated econ. — PolitiTweet.org

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No subtly here. This is so overtly racist that the President might as well come out and say that he wants to bring back redlining. His own past would suggest he never wanted it to go away in the first place. — PolitiTweet.org

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Millions of Americans are relying on enhanced unemployment benefits to put food on the table and keep a roof over their head. If we don’t extend these benefits, this already bad economic crisis will get even worse. #ExtendUI https://t.co/9Nft3FZYZz — PolitiTweet.org

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John Lewis was the best of us. We would all do well to take his advice—follow the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you believe in. It's how John lived his life. He will be dearly missed. https://t.co/AGvmxMCAZJ — PolitiTweet.org

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If @SenateGOP don’t get their act together soon, our economy is going to keep plummeting to new record lows. Their petty, partisan squabbling is Washington at its worst. It’s time to realize what’s at stake here—we must come together to right this ship before it’s too late. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CAPAction: Other countries are back to some semblance of normal life. Businesses are open. Kids are back in school. Economies are st… — PolitiTweet.org