Sens. Ossoff and Warnock credit Georgia voters for passage of $1.9 trillion relief package

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Live politics updates: Sens. Ossoff and Warnock credit Georgia voters for passage of $1.9 trillion relief package

Sarah Elbeshbishi
USA TODAY

Georgia Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock – two Democrats elected in Jan. 5 runoffs in what was once considered a Republican stronghold – held a press conference hours after the Senate narrowly approved a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package in a 50-49 vote that fell along party lines.

Both senators made it clear that the package would likely have never come to pass without their upset victories.

"This is the most significant economic relief package for working- and middle-class families in American history," Ossoff told reporters after the vote. "We will crush COVID-19, recover economically, safely re-open our schools, and get our daily lives back – and we’ll do it thanks to Georgia voters.”

Warnock agreed.

"There is no question that the people of Georgia deserve a great deal of credit for what happened here today," he said. "We simply would not be here had they not stood up in such a profound way in this historic election."

– Sarah Elbeshbishi

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/07/politics-updates-coronavirus-relief-biden-manchin/4619236001/