Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) believes stimulus package discussions will likely resume next month.
During an event held at the Norton Brownsboro Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky on Tuesday, McConnell projected that the fifth stimulus package could be discussed “in the next month or so.”
“Many of you are asking, what next? I think there’s likely to be another bill. It will not be the $3 trillion bill the House passed the other day. But there’s still a likelihood that more will be needed,” McConnell said.
“In the next month or so we’ll be talking about possibly another bill,” McConnell added.
McConnell also stressed the importance of caution to ensure lawmakers “correct the mistakes” they made in passing the previous bill.
“It ought to be very carefully targeted to correct the mistakes that we certainly made in passing a multitrillion-dollar bill in one week. There are some other needs that need to be met,” McConnell said.
The Senate leader also said that he believes “one more plug” may be needed on the federal level to combat the economic crisis.
“We may need, as I said, one more plug here at the federal level to help us get through this period, but it will be very carefully crafted. It won’t be [a] $3 trillion left-wing wish list,” he added.
See McConnell’s remarks below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Fe7ONWctA
The Kentucky lawmaker’s latest speech comes as Republicans rejected Democrats’ latest proposed bill.
McConnell, along with other Republican lawmakers, deeply criticized the $3 trillion-dollar bill deeming it “liberal wish list.”
“It’s a 1,800-page liberal wish list. It strikes me as hardly salvageable,” McConnell said at the time, later adding, “It’s a parade of absurdities that can hardly be taken seriously.”
During the event, he also reiterated that another $3 trillion bill would not be passed.
“We’re not going to be doing a $3 trillion bill. That won’t happen,” he said. “That isn’t going to happen.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, there are more than 1.7 million cooroanvirus cases in the United States and a death toll of more than 100,000.
