Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday unveiled the Republican HEALS act to address the coronavirus pandemic — including another round of $1,200 stimulus checks.
McConnell said the bill, expected to cost about $1 trillion, gives a liability shield to businesses and funds to schools. It caps at 70 percent of pre-pandemic pay a federal unemployment insurance supplement that lapsed last week.
HEALS is an acronym for health, economic assistance, liability and schools, McConnell said. He dismissed a rival Democratic proposal as a “multi-trillion-dollar socialist manifesto.”
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McConnell and his “band of merry men” is a disgrace. He gives the store away to his rich corporate friends but has no compassion for people who have to struggle to get by. Cut people’s benefits when they can’t find work and have bills to pay. If the Democrat version is “socialist” then perhaps we need to consider the socialist alternative. This GOP government is the apotheosis of mean-spiritedness and mendacity. They all richly deserve the gehinnom that is waiting for them.
Mitch looks like a dork.