Senate Majority Leader McConnell: Dems Blocking COVID-19 Stimulus Package

Mitch McConnell's Comms Director tweets comments from the Majority leader: "McConnell: It has now been more than a week since Senate Republicans released a serious proposal for another major rescue package. A trillion dollars for kids, jobs, and healthcare. But Democrats are blocking it all."

• "Senate Republicans want to revive a federal add-on to unemployment insurance which the Democratic Leader would not let us extend last week."
• "We want to send another round of direct checks straight into families' pockets. We want to supply generous new incentives for re-hiring American workers and workplace safety."
• "We want to send historic money to schools for re-opening and invest even more in testing and vaccine research. We want legal protections so schools, churches, charities, and businesses can re-open."
• "Democrats say they want many of the same things. I certainly believe that many of my Democratic colleagues who serve as Ranking Members want many of these same things, and could easily find common ground w/our Chairmen if the Democratic Leader would let them talk."
• "But instead, we've gotten a full week of the Speaker & Democratic Leader shutting out all of their own members & refusing to move an inch off of demands that everyone knows are outlandish. Democratic leaders want the entirety of their massive far-left wish list."