Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told 'Bill Hemmer Reports' Wednesday that he has no plans to pass legislation to provide additional federal funding to state and local governments who he said are trying to 'take advantage' the coronavirus crisis to get help with their ballooning deficits.
to replenish funds in the Paycheck Protection Program and address a handful of other priorities. He initially sought to have the bill include only funding for the PPP but Democrats held up the legislation until they could extract concessions from the majority leader. Though McConnell ceded to some of their requests, he kept funding for state governments out of the bill, which is expected to see a vote in the House of Representatives on Thursday.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
"We tried to get relief for the small business package twelve days ago. It was in fact delayed by Democratic maneuvers," McConnell responded. "But ... I don’t think the public is interested in that. What they are interested in is what we did yesterday ... we put $310 billion in to replenish the program for small businesses which ran out of money 12 days ago."We also added $75 billion for hospitals and we know they are struggling.
McConnell later rejected Pelosi's claim that only Democrats supported including a provision to increase funding for hospitals in the bill."That’s not correct," he said. "We are all interested in that and none of that was contentious.
When Hemmer asked McConnell about the prospect of a Phase 4 bill, McConnell said if one is put forward, "it will be when all the members of the Senate are back, which would be the earliest May 4th."Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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