Nancy Pelosi Blasts Mitch McConnell For Blocking The Much Needed $2000 Checks

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore into Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for blocking $2,000 stimulus checks that are supported by both Democrats and President Trump.

The bipartisan legislation was passed by the House earlier this week to raise the direct stimulus payments from $600 to $2,000 after Trump called it a “disgrace,” but McConnell objected to a quick vote on the stand-alone legislation on Tuesday.

Pelosi called out McConnell for his heartlessness at a news conference on Wednesday, “It’s amazing to see the patience that some people have with other people’s suffering. These Republicans in the Senate seem to have an endless tolerance.”

“We urge Mitch McConnell to stop his obstruction and to bring that legislation to the floor of the Senate,” she added.

McConnell will not commit to bringing the larger checks up for a vote. However, he has presented a new bill that would link the $2,000 checks to two other controversial pieces of legislation. One being the formation of a committee to investigate Trump’s election security claims and the other is repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

“Those are the three important subjects the president has linked together,” McConnell pushed. “This week the Senate will begin a process to bring these three priorities into focus.”

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said this was just McConnell’s latest attempt to deprive Americans of the bigger checks that they so desperately need and deserve.

“Senator McConnell knows how to make $2,000 survival checks reality,” said Schumer, “and he knows how to kill them.”