Coronavirus stimulus: McConnell rejects Dem demand for big Covid relief package, stands by push for

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Source: CNN

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday continued to reject the call from Democrats for a big coronavirus stimulus package, saying, "that's not a place I think we're willing to go" and reiterated his push for a bill that's "highly targeted at what the residual problems are."

McConnell said of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer, "I gather she and the Democratic leader in the Senate still are looking at something dramatically larger. That's not a place I think we're willing to go."

Pelosi and Schumer signaled during a news conference earlier on Thursday they're not willing to change their call for a large coronavirus package even as efforts to negotiate remain stalled. The Democratic leaders instead argued that the result of the presidential election was a mandate for Joe Biden, which in turn strengthens their position in an effort to get a Covid package in the lame duck session.

"This election was maybe more a referendum on who can handle Covid well than anything else," Schumer said. "The Donald Trump approach was repudiated. The Joe Biden approach was embraced and that's why we think there's a better chance to get a bill in the lame duck, if only the Republicans would stop embracing the ridiculous shenanigans that Trump is forcing them to do in the election and focus on what people need."

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[brush]

1. This might bite Moscow Mitch in the ass in the Georgia senate races.

I hope the Dem candidates play up his refusal to help Americans who need economic relief.

[Ellipsis]

4. Hah.. like minds.

[DeminPennswoods]

23. It sure will

Thanks for giving Dems the club to hit you over the head with, Mitch.

[sakabatou]

2. Isn't there a way for the House to go around the Senate?

[stopbush]

6. No

[sakabatou]

14. Gah.

[Ellipsis]

3. This will come back to bite them in ass in Georgia.

[Rorey]

5. Some of the people of Kentucky who voted for this sorry excuse for a human being

can thank themselves when they're wondering where they're going to get money to pay rent, bills, and buy a Christmas present for their kids.

[Newest Reality]

7. What the heck was his campaign about?

"Ahm sure you will agree that letting the democrats spend your money on you and your family and small business just wouldn't be dignified! Kentucky, as a welfare state, would rather earn it the hard way!"

[Rorey]

9. Sounds about right.

That, and "It's Nancy Pelosi's fault."

[Hassin Bin Sober]

16. He literally bragged about securing funds for half his state being high crime and opioid addicted.

[LiberalArkie]

20. Who is to say that the people in Kentucky actually elected him.

Maybe a recount is in order.

[Mike 03]

8. Throw this in his face:

On Oct. 30, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump said: "We will have a tremendous stimulus package immediately after the election."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-stimulus-package-election/

[Rorey]

11. He lied????

[Mike 03]

13. I know, but it's so much fun to throw his own words around and be greeted with

embarrassed silence.

I just trolled the White House with this, and will do it again.



https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

[bucolic_frolic]

10. With COVID numbers surging, a 'voluntary lockdown' is coming

Most sane people will minimize consumption. The waning weeks of the Trump administration will see plunging economic performance

[Rorey]

12. And in some places, possibly a mandatory lockdown

He's going to look like the failure he is, for sure.

[quakerboy]

22. Which will promptly be blamed on us

along with all of covid, from start to finish.

The worlds of logic or facts or evidence have no sway among the 70 million people who voted for trump

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. They need to pass a good one in the House,

send it over to the Senate, and be out there every single day pointing out that Republicans don't want them to have stimulus money and whatever else they're balking at.

Every single day.

[Operaweeble]

18. They SHOULD have been doing that ad nausium BEFORE the election!!

[C_U_L8R]

17. Unseating this awful turd is what the Georgia election is all about.

So much rides on Georgia.

[hibbing]

19. "residual problems"

Just like Trump, like we have rounded the corner and cases are going down while they are actually skyrocketing all over the country!

Peace

[DallasNE]

21. McConnell: Everything Is Hunky-Dorey

He only sees a few "residual problems". Let that sink in. We are seeing 145,000 new cases a day and nearly 2,000 deaths a day. That is light years away from a few residual problems. It is time to not even take anything serious that McConnell says and instead just laugh in his face. Residual problems my ass. McConnell is the residual problem