Stimulus bill backlash mounts against McConnell amid focus on SCOTUS seat

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The Senate majority leader has been questioned over the speed at which he appears willing to move in putting forward a vote on a replacement to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Now he’s springing into action to ram through another Trump SCOTUS nominee. Where’s that sense of urgency when it comes to American lives?The Senate GOP is more concerned with filling a SCOTUS seat less than 2 months before an election than passing a COVID relief package.Writing on Twitter, he said:"More than 200,000 Americans have died from #COVID19, and Mitch McConnell still refuses to allow a vote on the #HeroesAct.

"Now he's springing into action to ram through another Trump SCOTUS nominee. Where's that sense of urgency when it comes to American lives?""The Senate GOP is more concerned with filling a SCOTUS seat less than 2 months before an election than passing a COVID relief package," she wrote on Twitter.Read moreThe criticism comes as lawmakers continue to stall when it comes to agreeing a bipartisan agreement on stimulus likely to pass both the House and the Senate.

A major point of contention has been spend, with Republicans unwilling to go for the amount of funding Democrats are requesting to facilitate an agreement. Each side has criticized the other for failing to compromise sufficiently. Talks between Democratic figureheads and White House negotiators have failed to find a break through, with President Donald Trump

 

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Moscow Mitch who works 90% of the time out of the political backroom, where he runs the GOP Railroad, Tells the president what bills get a hearing and what few get a vote. Mitch keeps his lucrative position by paying Kentucky a few pork barrels, keeping them in the bottom ranking

The backlash is mounting against SpeakerPelosi and SixWaysFromSunday SenSchumer! SundayMorning SundayThoughts

Literally the morning RBG died McConnell and GOP were nearly set in Voting for CR through Dec 11 and getting out of Dodge. Weird.

Lies Democrats are the ones holding this up

He’s hiding the stimulus bill in his neck fat.

Omg, backlash is mounting, it's up to .0042 ergs

Our democracy and economy are in shambles because we have not elected honorable, decent, courageous, compassionate leaders. Instead, we have leaders who lie, deceive, and refuse to stand up to the corruption and destruction of Don the Con. Our economy has tanked.

backlash? MoscowMitchMcTreason doesn’t give the first🦊about what we think... VoteOutEveryRepublican FlipTheSenate

Hahha SpeakerPelosi

Stimulus bill backlash mounts against McConnell despite focus on SCOTUS seat

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Hirono: McConnell banking on colleagues' help to take SCOTUS seatMitch McConnell seeking to fill the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat--despite a precedent set against this by Republicans during President Obama’s final term--is discussed by Sen. Mazie Hirono, who stresses that in her view voters coming out to vote is critical to this coming battle. When you take back power, pack the courts all the way to 15 seats. They want to play hardball dirty politics? Just play it right back at him. McConnell wants the legacy of packing the courts with his old white southern ideologies. That’s his dream and wants it to be his legacy. HonorTruthHonorRuth Rbg handed it to trump as a going away gift. Trump needs to respect that.
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