Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Louisville, Kentucky, was vandalized early Saturday morning. Spray-painted messages on the Republican leader’s front door appear to be in response to his opposition to increasing Coronavirus Relief to Americans from $ 600 to $ 2,000.
The one message reads ‘is my money,’ and ‘Mitch kills the poor,’ according to photos shared by WLKY, a subsidiary of CBS News, in Louisville. McConnell last week blocked a vote on raising checks for three days in a row, calling the proposal ‘socialism for rich people’.
McConnell and the IDP argue that the bill will benefit the rich. However, McConnell previously supported the $ 1 billion 2017 tax cut, which disproportionately benefit the rich. The IDP leader also claims how much money the bill would cost the government. Larger checks, according to Heights Securities, would cost about $ 530 billion, about $ 385 billion more than what would cost $ 600 checks. The Senate, led by McConnell, on Friday approved a $ 740 billion defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA.
To approve the NDAA, the Senate had to veto a veto by President Trump, which was the first time Congress during its entire presidency voted to oust Mr. To ignore Trump.
After McConnell blocked the home bill that would allow $ 2,000 stimulus checks, he introduced a bill that linked the increased payments to two separate expenses appreciated by Trump: Nixing Section 230, a legal shield for Internet companies, and the creation of a commission to investigate electoral integrity. The president also committed a repeal of Article 230 to the NDAA, but several members of Congress, including Republicans, successfully argued that it was not relevant to national security.
“Here’s the deal,” McConnell said in a statement on the Senate floor earlier this week. “The Senate is not going to divide the three issues that have linked President Trump apart just because Democrats are afraid to address two of them.”
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, called the vandalism to McConnell’s home “unacceptable.” Twitter Saturday. “While the first amendment protects our freedom of speech, vandalism is reprehensible and for any reason never acceptable,” Beshear wrote.
McConnell said in his own statement that “vandalism and the politics of fear have no place in our society.”
“I have fought my career for the first amendment and the defense of peaceful protest. I appreciate every Kentuckian who has entered the democratic process, whether they agree with me or not,” his statement read. “My wife and I have never been intimidated by this toxic playbook. We just hope our neighbors in Louisville are not too hurt by this radical rage.”
It appears that the house’s speaker Nancy Pelosi’s house in San Francisco was also vandalized over the weekend, reports CBS SF Bay Area. The garage door of a residence in the Pacific Heights neighborhood was spray-painted and a pig’s head was left on the sidewalk.
The graffiti, which reads ‘cancel cancellation’ and ‘we want everything’, also appears to be related to the coronavirus stimulus checks. Democrats support greater controls, and Pelosi himself begged McConnell not to block a vote on the bill. “Mitch McConnell, remove the obstacle you have for the American people who have the opportunity to get that direct payment, and do it now,” she said.
San Francisco police did not want to confirm whether the home belonged to the speaker. Pelosi is currently in Washington, DC