Mitch McConnell pledges to scrap a newly enacted $600 boost in weekly unemployment benefits, calling it a 'crazy policy' allowing people to earn more while they aren't working
McConnell vowed to toss out the newly enacted $600 boost in weekly unemployment checks for laid-off Americans.
The Kentucky Republican said their party would have to "clean up the Democrats' crazy policy that is paying people more to remain unemployed than they would earn if they went back to work." Democrats are pressing to extend those benefits, and it's forming a deep rift among lawmakers fighting to shape the size and scale of the next coronavirus relief package.Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly pledged to scrap the newly enacted $600 boost in weekly unemployment benefits, calling it an outrageous policy that allows many jobless people to earn more than they did at their old positions.
During a Wednesday call with House Republicans, McConnell said their party would have to "clean up the Democrats' crazy policy that is paying people more to remain unemployed than they would earn if they went back to work." Politico The Kentucky Republican promised the ramped-up unemployment payments would "not be in the next bill."
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