Mitch McConnell slammed by NYT for fleeing DC for vacation while millions are out of work [View all]

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Published 4 hours ago on May 23, 2020
By Bob Brigham




Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his Republican caucus were the focus of a highly-critical New York Times editorial.

“After three weeks in session, the United States Senate emptied out again on Friday, as lawmakers fled Washington for the Memorial Day recess. They left without even pretending to tackle the next round of coronavirus relief,” the newspaper noted. “This is how the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, wants it.”

“The Democratic-led House passed a $3 trillion relief package on May 15. That bill was imperfect but it was something. Mr. McConnell, on the other hand, has repeatedly said he’s in no hurry for the Senate to offer its own proposal. He has put talks on an indefinite pause, saying he wants to see how the economy responds to previous relief measures,” the paper reported. “The Senate may get around to putting together a plan when it reconvenes next month. Or perhaps it will in July.”

“This course of inaction is unsustainable,” The Times warned, noting that new jobless claims of almost 39 million Americans with unemployment approaching 20 percent.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/mitch-mcconnell-slammed-by-nyt-for-fleeing-dc-for-vacation-with-millions-out-of-work/

Since the New York Times published the names of the dead from this pandemic ...............I just gotta ask, if the Kentucky Newspapers will publish the dead Kentuckians from this pandemic and how many Kentuckians are going hungry , can't pay rent or there mortgage, and the state and local police officers and firefighters are going to lose there jobs, because this asshole thinks it just fine and dandy for states to go bankrupt and put his Ayn Rand Libertarian BS to work while he lives off the taxpayers ticket going on vacation.........................while this asshole is on another "vacation" making $225,000.00 a year and making $18,725.00 a month doing fucking nothing.............