WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday branded House Democrats' $3 trillion economic relief bill a “totally unserious effort” to address the coronavirus pandemic, underscoring the deep election-year gulch over what Congress' next response to the crisis should be.
Two days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled what would be Congress' fifth and largest package for nursing the dormant economy through the emergency, McConnell, R-Ky., said Democrats had produced a “seasonal catalog of left-wing oddities and called it a coronavirus relief bill." Provisions he singled out for criticism included a rollback of GOP-passed tax increases on residents of states with high taxes, language making it easier for people to vote