As a central Illinois town stares down laying off firefighters, one US Senator says federal dollars need to flow to cities and other forms government.

Peoria is considering laying off 33 firefighters due to budget concerns. Tammy Duckworth wants the Senate to come back with support for cities and states.

Duckworth says the intent of the third COVID relief package was to support local units of government, but that didn’t happen after Republicans finished writing the rules.

Duckworth says there was $150 billion in the third package to help relieve stress on governments but the strings attached made that money much harder to allocate.