On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel blocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s attempt to unanimously pass a bill to increase direct payments year-end coronavirus relief packages from $600 to $2000. 

He claims that the Democrats have “quietly changed” what President Trump wanted in the bill. He adds that it lets wealthy households suck up even more money. McConnell says the Democrats are trying to do away with the repeal of section 230 and a review of the 2020 election.

“The Left took a break from trying to defund the police to try to defund our Armed Forces,” McConnell states. “Their amendment went down in a landslide. But now our colleague from Vermont [Sanders] is again putting political stunts before the needs of our men and women in uniform. Our colleague says he will slow down this vital bill unless he gets to muscle through another standalone proposal from Speaker Pelosi that would add roughly half a trillion dollars to the national debt, which does not align with what President Trump has suggested and which has no realistic path to quickly pass the Senate.”

The topic three priorities for Trump are larger direct payments, repeal of section 230 of the communications decency act, and a review of election integrity. McConnell says these three requests have not been adequately addressed and the job of the senate is “to ensure the president was comfortable signing the bill into law, the Senate committed to beginning one process that would combine three of the president’s priorities

“Three of the president’s priorities in one Senate process. That was the commitment, and that’s what happened yesterday when I introduced text reflecting just what the president had requested. Now, House and Senate Democrats want something very different. As they have tried to do countless times in the past four years, Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer are trying to pull a fast one on the president and the American people.” said McConnell.

Chuck Schumer testified in front of the Senate, asking for senate Republicans to join the rest of “America”.