After first suggesting bankruptcy, Mitch McConnell now wants strings attached to aid for COVID-ravaged states—even as Kentucky is deeply dependent on the federal government’s support
last week that blue state governors were getting greedy with requested coronavirus aid, and those facing budget shortfalls should go bankrupt rather than receive another dime from the federal government, the rebuke was swift. “To say that it is ‘free money’ to provide funds for cops, firefighters and healthcare workers makes McConnell the Marie Antoinette of the Senate,” Republican Congressmancalled it “one of the really dumb ideas of all time.
“We’re not writing a check to send down to states to allow them to, in effect, finance mistakes they’ve made unrelated to the coronavirus,” McConnell added.suggested state funding would be contingent on Democrats agreeing to limit liabilities for businesses that reopen in the coming weeks—a measure designed to prevent employees and patrons from suing companies should they become ill, but also, it would seem, to ease the political liability on the president and his allies who have pushed for those businesses to reopen even before the coronavirus crisis was brought to heel.
them of prioritizing. “While Senator McConnell has made it clear that he’s bringing the Senate back to fulfill his ‘pre-existing partisan wish-list’ of protecting big business from any harm done to the American people,” Senate Minority LeaderMonday, “he would do well to focus on the actual crisis affecting American lives.”
That aid to states and local governments battling the crisis, particularly in the absence of leadership from the White House, has become a political issue is yet another dismal failure of the GOP response to the pandemic. Since McConnell’s Marie Antoinette moment last week, several other Republicans, including the president, have adopted his “no blue state bailouts” as the company line.
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