Why is McConnell so dead set against payments to help state and local governments?

[Nexus2]

It really a hill he is determined to die on and was apparently willing to trade direct payments to citizen (albeit reduced from the previous ones) to keep off the so called compromise. What's up with Turtleman?

[marybourg]

1. His base thinks the money will go to "blue states".

[soothsayer]

2. The blue states that fund always-in-the-red red states

[marybourg]

9. Yup, those blue states.

[Johonny]

3. Because the people that need the money are taking their anger out on state and local

governments and not him. Most people that are complaining about lost local businesses due to shutdowns or lost unemployment checks etc... don't understand Mitch's role in that. They blame state and local governments. In blue states, this anger hurt house races in 2020 and might flip a few governorships in 2022.

[getagrip_already]

4. he is following a scorched/salted earth strategy...

of leaving nothing of value behind for the enemy to rebuild with or feed their populations.

It is a power play to make the first four years of a biden administration so difficult the country will be ready for a gop candidate.

He tried the same thing during obamas years, but didn't have the senate for the first 2 so obama was able to get some real economic lifting done.

He won't make that mistake again.

[underpants]

10. ☝️This

[edhopper]

5. Because he understands

when things go really bad while Biden is President, even if it is McConnell's fault, Biden will get the blame.
It worked for him under Obama and they retook the House and Senate.

[Klaralven]

6. The conservative view is that urban governments are wasteful

In particular, it is thought that big city governments employ many of their supporters in non-essential, make-work jobs.

This was the traditional basis for big-city machine politics, from Tammany Hall on down.

[peggysue2]

7. They want to pin the coming financial disasters on the Democratic Party

Specifically Biden's Administration. This is no different than McConnell standing on the Senate floor in 2008 and saying his first and foremost desire/accomplishment was to make Barack Obama a one-term president.

If the state and local governments go broke? No concern. In fact, McConnell has previously said: Let them go bankrupt. If funding for the vaccine rollout, distribution, delivery and maintenance services, are undercut who will get the blame after January 20th?

Bingo! The Democratic Party.

This is a man who doesn't give a shit about the country or her citizens. It's all about power and payback.

McConnell is a flat-out enemy to the welfare of the country. He's just as dangerous, even more so than Donald Trump. Because his tenure is continuing.

[beachbumbob]

8. Goes to bluestates and blue cities, enough said

[Danmel]

11. He wants to destroy pensions for government workers

By forcing the states into bankruptcy

[hedda_foil]

12. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!!!!! It's always about taking from the poor and giving to the rich.