Mitch McConnell slams Biden stimulus bill as ‘multi-trillion dollar Trojan Horse’ to bail out Dem states not help people
MITCH McConnell has slammed Joe Biden's Covid stimulus bill as a "multi-trillion dollar Trojan horse" designed to bail out Democratic states.
Biden, 78, is said to be "laser-focused" on after into law on Thursday afternoon.
Addressing his colleagues on Thursday, he said: "This wasn't a bill to finish off the pandemic, it was a multi-trillion-dollar Trojan horse full of bad old liberal ideas.
"President Biden's own staff keep calling this legislation quote 'the most progressive bill in American history'.
"Hardly the commonsense bipartisanship that the president promised."
said the "historic legislation is about a fighting chance" before he added his signature to the landmark package in .
But McConnell claimed that much of the cash in the new bill went on helping state governments and "local budgets unrelated to pandemic needs".
"Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again," Trump said.
"He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our country."
Trump said that the GOP would never again be a respected and strong party with McConnell leading due to his “status quo policies.”
In his first prime-time speech on Thursday night, to all adults by May 1.
, announced that all states would make people 18 years and older eligible to be vaccinated by that date - and that life could be "close to normal" by the Fourth of July.
To achieve that, the US is ramping up from one million Covid-19 shots per day that Biden promised in December, to beating its current pace of two million injections daily, "outpacing the rest of the world," Biden said.
Biden said that thousands of people including retired nurses have been mobilized to vaccinate Americans and that the government has opened more jab sites.
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The president expects life to return to normal or close to that by the Fourth of July.
"After this long hard year that will make this Independence Day something truly special where we not only mark our independence as a nation but we begin to mark our independence from this virus," Biden said.