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Sunday evening, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell angrily ravaged Democrats’ last-minute obstruction on a massive emergency funding measure that had been previously negotiated in bipartisan committees in order to provide critical help to American families and the economy.

On the verge of a Senate vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed up and stepped into the middle of negotiations on a reported $1.6-trillion emergency package Sunday and declared she would not support the bill. She said she would instead go back to her House chambers and create her own House bill.

McConnell took the floor to report to America exactly how Pelosi’s political “nonsense” is putting the country at grave risk.

“The American people are watching this spectacle,” said McConnell. “I’m told the futures market is down 5%. I’m also told that that’s when trading stops. So the notion that we have time to play games here with the American economy and the American people is utterly absurd.”

“So I want to explain what just happened,” he continued. “Our good friends on the other side would not have been disadvantaged one bit if this vote had succeeded because it would have required potentially 30 more hours of discussion, during which these seemingly endless negotiations could go on as long as they would like.”

The Majority Leader summarized the situation for all who were watching and who were hoping that Congress could deliver when it was all on the line.

“Now the build up to this, so everybody fully understands, is that we had a high level of bipartisanship in five different working groups over the last 48 hours where members who were participating were reaching agreement,” McConnell said. “And then all of a sudden the Democratic leader and the Speaker of the House shows up, and we’re back to square one. So, we’re fiddling here — fiddling with the emotions of the American people, fiddling with the markets, fiddling with our health care. The American people expect us to act tomorrow. And I want everybody to fully understand — if we aren’t able to act tomorrow, it will be because of our colleagues on the other side continuing to ****er when the country expects us to come together and address this problem.”

When it was obvious that Democrats had backed away and the bill was going to be defeated, McConnell changed his vote to “no” in a procedural move.

------------ The dems believe hurting the America people will hurt Trump,
but the people know what's going on and it ain't good for the dems---------
 
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