This is classic Mitch McConnell. We are in the dark, dark days of this pandemic and a group of Republicans and Democrats come together in good faith to devise a framework for emergency funding to help our country. And what does McConnell say? He calls it a waste of time. (1/5)
NOBODY knows more about wasting time than McConnell. He had the Senate do nothing on COVID relief in November. Nothing in October. September. August. It’s painful how long this has gone on. He refuses to negotiate with Democrats. And he wants to talk about wasting time? (2/5)
I have never seen a place like Mitch McConnell’s United States Senate. It’s like he owns it. If he doesn’t like something, it’s “a waste of time” and that’s the end of it. (3/5)
If he doesn’t want my constituents to get emergency help, they don’t get it. It should be the people’s Senate, not McConnell’s. (4/5)
This framework is a proposal, and we don’t know any of the details because they haven’t been worked out yet. I think we should work on it.

In an emergency like we face with COVID, the perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of the good, and we need to do some good right now. (5/5)
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