House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered blistering criticism of President
Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Friday, saying the two
Republicans “reject science and reject governance” in the face of the
coronavirus pandemic that has so far killed more than 50,000 Americans.
Pelosi
delivered her remarks at her weekly news conference in the nation’s
capital one day after the House of Representatives passed a $484 billion
coronavirus relief bill to ramp up coronavirus testing and to aid small
businesses and hospitals impacted by the pandemic. The was passed on
Tuesday in the Senate, after which McConnell said in an interview that
he would be “in favor” of letting states declare bankruptcy rather than
receive more federal aid.
“Speaking of Mitch, what's gotten into
him?” Pelosi said Friday. “The president is asking people to inject
Lysol into their lungs and Mitch is saying that states should go
bankrupt. It's a clear, visible, [example] within 24 hours of how the
Republicans reject science and reject governance. If you don’t believe
in science and you don’t believe in governance... That’s their
approach."
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