Senator McConnell who is the head of the Senate.
You know we've been talking about funding for state and local governments
and it was not in the bill that the house is going to pass today.
They said don't worry, don't worry, don't worry the next bill.
As soon as the Senate passed it, this current bill,
senator Mitch McConnell goes out and he says
maybe the states should declare bankruptcy, OK?
This is one of the really dumb ideas of all time
and you know I said to my colleagues in Washington,
I would have insisted that state and local funding was in this current bill
because I don't believe they want to fund state and local governments.
And not the fun state and local governments is incredibly short-sighted.
They want to fund small business, funding airlines, I understand that.
But state and local government funds police and fire and teachers and schools.
schools how do you not fund police and fire and teachers and schools
in the midst of this crisis?
Yes, airlines are important, yes small business is important.
So are police and fire and health care workers who are the frontline workers.
And when you don't fund the state, then the state can't fund those services.
Makes no sense to me.
Also makes no sense that the entire nation is dependent
on what the governors do to reopen.
We've established that it's up to this governor, it's up to this governor, it's up to this governor
but then you're not going to fund the state government?
What do you think, I'm gonna do it alone?
How do you think this is going to work?
And then to suggest we're concerned about the economy.
States should declare bankruptcy?
That's how you're gonna bring this national economy back?
By states declaring bankruptcy?
You want to see that market fall through the cellar?
Let New York state declare bankruptcy.
Let Michigan declare bankruptcy. Let Illinois declare bankruptcy.
Let California declare bankruptcy.
You will see the collapse of this national economy.
So, just dumb.
Vicious is saying when Senator McConnell said this is a blue state bailout.
What he's saying is if you look at the states that have coronavirus problems
problems they tend to be democratic states.
New York, California, Michigan, Illinois, they are democratic states.
So if you fund states that are suffering from the coronavirus,
they're democratic states.
Don't help New York State because it is a democratic state.
How ugly a thought?
I mean just think of, just think of what he's saying.
People died.
15,000 people died in New York, but they were predominantly Democrats
so why should we help them?
I mean for crying out loud, if there was ever a time you're gonna put aside,
for you to put aside your pettiness and your partisanship and this political lens
that you see the world through –
Democrat and Republican and we help Republicans but we don't help Democrats
– that's not who we are. it's just not who we are as a people.
I mean if there's ever a time for humanity and decency, now is the time.
And if there was ever a time to stop your political obsessive political bias
and anger which is what its morphed into, just a political anger, now is the time.
And you want to politically divide this nation now? With all that's going on?
How irresponsible and how reckless.