The Missouri Senate has approved legislation incentivizing the Kansas City Chiefs and Kansas City Royals to stay in their state, with the threat of the teams moving to Kansas looming. The bill needed 18 votes to pass and was approved 19-13.

Missouri senators on Thursday approved a plan to provide over $100 million in aid for tornado-ravaged St. Louis and authorized hundreds of millions of dollars worth of incentives to try to persuade the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals to continue playing in Missouri in new or improved stadiums.

The Missouri Senate passed legislation overnight incentivizing the Chiefs and Royals to stay in the state. “In the long run, Mr. President, this was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship,” clarified German Chancellor Friedrich Merz after Trump's remark