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McConnell Slams Biden's 'Totally Partisan' Approach to Covid Relief
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1:44Now PlayingAs Congress prepares for its first votes on the President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, Senate Republican leaders are slamming the bill as too expensive, and filled with items that are unrelated to the pandemic.
"They're going to try to muscle it through on a totally partisan basis," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
"I think I can safely speak for most of my members that we think this is dramatically more money than is required at this particular juncture," he said.
"It will be controversial," McConnell said.
The House Budget Committee is advancing the 591-page package Monday, setting up House passage at perhaps week's end.
An overall relief bill is expected to clear both chambers of Congress, but a hike in the federal minimum wage is shaky in the Senate, where Joe Manchin of West Virginia, perhaps the chamber's most conservative Democrat, has said $15 is too expensive. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., has suggested she might oppose it, too.
The bill would provide $1,400 payments to millions of low- and middle-income people, increase child tax credits and offer extra $400 weekly federal unemployment benefits through August.
It would provide hundreds of billions of dollars for state and local governments, shuttered schools, COVID-19 vaccines and testing, and struggling airlines and other businesses.
"And so what we have seen here at the beginning of this administration is pretty far left across the board, and the best evidence of it is currently before us is the way they've chosen to take a totally partisan approach to COVID relief," McConnell said.
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