Daily Kos: McConnell tells Kentucky they have the Democrats to thank for saving them from COVID
Berry Craig
Thanks to Jeff Wiggins for alerting us to this story.
By JOAN McCARTER
For most of the duration of the pandemic in 2020, Sen. Mitch McConnell held out on agreeing to COVID-19 relief. The House passed the $3 trillion HEROES Act in May 2020, a follow-up to the CARES Act passed in March. It then unilaterally compromised with a $2.2 trillion version of the bill it passed in October, and McConnell continued to refuse to bring to the Senate floor. Finally, in December when he was fighting to keep two Senate seats in Georgia and his majority (ultimately unsuccessfully), he relented and allowed a stripped down package to help struggling Americans.