Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R., Ky.) effort to provide an extra $250 billion to small businesses in the latest coronavirus relief bill is a “political stunt,” two Senate Democrats said Thursday.
“He’s just dumping money,” Sen. Doug Jones (D., Ala.) told MSNBC. “This is a political stunt by Senator McConnell again, just like he did when we were discussing—and in good faith discussions and negotiations—about how to get COVID 3 done. He did the same thing: put something on the floor of the Senate that he knew was not going to pass so he could have a political message.”
Jones said McConnell lied, claiming McConnell never negotiated the bill with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and was “once again playing politics with the American people.” – READ MORE
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