McConnell signals House $2,000 stimulus checks bill won't pass Senate
By Jordain Carney - 12/30/20 03:38 PM EST
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) ripped a House-passed proposal to increase the amount of stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000, signaling that it won't pass the Senate.
McConnell's remarks underscore that Congress is unlikely to get a proposal to increase the stimulus checks to President Trump's desk by noon Sunday, the start of the 117th Congress.
The House passed a bill Monday to increase the amount of the stimulus checks included in a recent $2.3 trillion package, but McConnell said Wednesday that the Senate would not pass a stand-alone bill on checks.
"The Senate is not going to split apart the three issues that President Trump linked together just because Democrats are afraid to address two of them. 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 from the Senate floor.
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