Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell knows where he needs to take his fellow Republicans on Covid relief — but he’s not sure how many will follow him there
The grumbling coming from his own party is a rare occurrence for McConnell, who always seems so sure-handed in managing his conference. And the delay also opened McConnell to attacks from Schumer, his Democratic counterpart, who is accusing Senate Republicans of failing to take the crisis seriously enough.
"Unlike Schumer and Pelosi, I’ve got them coming to my entire conference so that nobody’s hiding the ball from anybody on our side," McConnell said. Those factors, and more, “created a unity that I don’t see there now,” McConnell said. “The political situation obviously deteriorated since March and April, where there was a widespread sense of panic over what to do about this disease, confronted with shutting down the economy as a way to deal with the disease, and what the government could do to get us through this period.”
“I knew we weren’t going to be having a kumbaya moment in which everybody got together and said, ‘Oh, let’s do it again,’” McConnell said. “So I thought this was the smartest way to handle it. I think at some point here we’ll get an agreement. Hopefully sooner rather than later.” Paul blamed “the large amount of the caucus who believe that the government is the answer — call them ‘big government Republicans.’”
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin meanwhile, complained about his leadership: “I have no idea what they’re thinking.”
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