GOP blasted for 'playing with the lives of 30 million people' as economic recovery sputters
and benefits expire
Published 1 min ago on July 30, 2020
By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
On May 11, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that he had “not yet felt the urgency” of passing another Covid-19 relief package despite skyrocketing unemployment claims and warnings of a prolonged economic recession.
Now, more than two months later, persistent inaction by the Republican-controlled Senate has pushed 30 million Americans to the brink of a steep financial cliff as federally enhanced unemployment benefits are set to lapse in just 24 hours barring a last-minute deal in Congress that appears all but impossible.
In recent weeks, McConnell justified delaying passage of another stimulus bill on the grounds that state reopenings could jumpstart the U.S. economy, rendering another relief package unnecessary.
But that prediction has not borne out; Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned Wednesday that the “pace of recovery looks like it has slowed.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/gop-blasted-for-playing-with-the-lives-of-30-million-people-as-economic-recovery-sputters-and-benefits-expire/
And #Moscow Mitch keeps getting a $18,750 a month taxpayer check to be in the senate and basically being a dead beat..............
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough..................
Hey Kentucky is this what you signed up for with this POS and what he is doing to people in your state ...........and now the entire country..............33 million can't find a job.................
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even if and when his crew of hypocrites go on recess, you got a bill from two months ago, lets see if there are 60 votes for it or not #Moscow Mitch..........they don't have the sixty votes for there own plan................
