Mitch McConnell Is “Concerned” People Won’t Go Back to Work If They Get Bare-Bones Unemployment and a $1400 Check

Mitch McConnell Is “Concerned” People Won’t Go Back to Work If They Get Bare-Bones Unemployment and a $1400 Check

Mitch McConnell, one of the wealthiest members of Congress, appeared on Fox News this week to express concern about providing stimulus money to Americans struggling to survive during a pandemic.

Host Martha MacCallum brought up “the checks that are going out”—presumably meaning both the $1400 checks and the additional unemployment benefits included in the COVID-19 stimulus package currently being debated in the Senate—and asked the Senate minority leader : “Do you believe that these checks prevent some people from wanting to work?”

McConnell’s completely predictable response was that he thinks “there is a concern about making it more advantageous to stay […]

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