The Misadventures of Moscow Mitch: Business Insider: A pathetic excuse for waiting too long on the relief bil
"Pushing the pause button meant seeing how what we have already done is working… It allowed us to learn the coronavirus didn't mysteriously disappear. It's still here."— Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to the NY Times on why he slow-walked the coronavirus aid bill.
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Over the past few days it's become clear that the GOP's new messaging about the coronavirus is going to be that we're doing about as well as we could be doing. As Trump said in an interview with Axios on HBO this week, "it is what it is."
And in an interview with the New York Times, Mitch McConnell told reporters that he didn't cooperate with Democrats on a new coronavirus aid bill back in May because we needed to make sure the coronavirus wouldn't "mysteriously disappear."