Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected a bill to increase direct payments to $2,000, likely closing the door on any pathway to passage before the end of the Congress this weekend.
McConnell took to the Senate floor to attack the House-passed bill, specifically on the issue of higher-income individuals and couples that would be eligible to receive some of the payments due to how the income phase outs are structured.
“The Senate is not going to be bullied into rushing out more borrowed money into the hands of Democrats’ rich friends who don’t need the help,” McConnell said.
I Tried Being Tasteful... 
What a jerk. So, lower the phase-out threshold… I’m all for that. I don’t need the money, but I know many are really hurting. .
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His millionaire wife probably got “a helping hand” for her corporation. He is one of the wealthiest people in the government. Has all the pork benefits they have given themselves but horrors of horrors the idea that the average citizen should get a break sends him into a frenzy.
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