Nearly 40 million are out of work but McConnell wants benefits to stop anyway

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Source: American Independent



By Emily Singer -May 21, 2020 10:16 AM0 Comments12

As 2.4 million more applied for unemployment insurance, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he will not extend the added $600 weekly benefit.

Another 2.4 million Americans filed jobless claims last week, bringing the total number of Americans out of work to 38.6 million, the Department of Labor reported on Thursday.

The news comes as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to end the additional $600 weekly payment unemployed Americans are receiving under provisions of the $2 trillion CARES Act Congress passed in March.

According to Politico, McConnell told House Republicans on Wednesday that the additional payments "will not be in the next bill."

The $600 addition to unemployment payments is set to expire at the end of July.

Read more: https://americanindependent.com/mitch-mcconnell-unemployment-insurance-coronavirus-cares-act-senate-gop-covid-19/

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Lets think of what the #Moscow Mitch and his libertarian cohorts are thinking, they deride the poor, but they want to drive more citizens into the poor ranks, during a pandemic with around 40 million out of work, and then in some future BS rant, they deride people to find a job and that said people are looking for some free ride, and then to top it all off this jerk, makes around $18,725.00 dollars a month or $225,000.00 a year being the libertarian leader collecting a taxpayer paycheck, which he thinks is great for him, but when the citizens paying that wage need some assistance............his attitude is don't let the door hit you in the ass when you leave and continue eating cake.........because I am getting my free lunch ticket being the leader of the senate, and all of the other non-chair leaders in that chamber make $174,000.00 a year......off your taxes..............
He has the House bill (HEROES ACT) sitting on his desk, so now he is playing with people lives literally and he is taking a One Week recess....................