Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to open the door on Monday to including some direct payments to Americans in a future coronavirus relief bill.

Asked if funding for individuals like the stimulus checks included in a March package would be in the next piece of legislation, which would be the fifth in response to COVID-19, McConnell said they “could well” be.

“I think the people that have been hit the hardest are people who make about $40,000 or less. Many of them work in the hospitality industry . . . That could well be a part of it,” McConnell said. Read Full Story

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell accused Democrats of threatening to strip the nation of important institutions and replacing them with the policies of the far-left and compared them to “far-left mobs attacking statues of our Founding Fathers.”

“So, while we have far-left mobs attacking statues of our Founding Fathers from coast to coast, we have far-left politicians attacking the institutions they left us,” McConnell said.

McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, criticized Democrats for proposing an end to the longstanding legislative filibuster in the Senate, advocating for additional seats on the Supreme Court that could be filled with Democrats, making the District of Columbia the 51st state, and ending the Electoral College, among other proposal Read Full Story

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President Donald Trump’s impact on the federal judiciary will be felt for decades, regardless of whether he wins reelection in November.

Trump last week saw the Senate confirm his 200th judicial appointment, marking a significant milestone for the administration, the conservative legal movement, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has worked furiously to remake the courts. Not since Jimmy Carter has a president appointed as many federal judges at this point in his first term. 

Trump has appointed 53 judges to the influential courts of appeals, the last stop for cases before the Supreme Court, filling 30% of its seats with hand-picked conservatives. Read Full Story

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