Source: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
After Senate Republicans crafted a targeted, $300 billion
COVID relief package, Democrats blocked the legislation, yet again. In need of
60 votes to avoid filibuster and begin discussion, no Democrats joined Leader
McConnell’s effort to deliver additional relief to the American people.
After refusing to come to the negotiating table for the
majority of the summer, Democratic leadership failed to articulate what
line-items in Leader McConnell’s legislation with which they took issue, but
blocked the stimulus package anyway, at the expense of the American people.
Leader McConnell challenged his Democratic colleagues to voice their
oppositions, rather than blindly blocking the legislation, and forced the
minority party to publicly vote against economic relief for Americans.
Democrats continually block relief packages that do not include
their list of unrelated line items, at the expense of the American people, to
score political points in an election year.
