Political Quotes

“after the Senate Republicans spent 4 months dithering and delaying, last week, Leader McConnell pushed a partisan, emaciated COVID bill. It was so paltry and ladened with poison pills that it was clearly designed to fail. And fail it did. It is time for the Senate Republicans to wake up to the gravity of the crisis in our country and work with Democrats on a comprehensive bill that delivers real help to Americans. Speaker Pelosi and I have already come down $1 trillion from our initial request. Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans must drop the cynical and political games and instead work with Democrats to find common ground and reach a compromise. If Republican leadership lets the 20 Members of their caucus who barely want to provide any more relief and allows them to dictate their party's agenda, it will block the path to a compromise, and Republicans will have to answer to the American people. Our country still does not have a strong grasp on COVID-19. America continues to lead the world in the number of confirmed cases by far-- over 6.5 million. Nearly 200,000 Americans have died. Yet, unthinkably, it was reported that in one of his interviews with Bob Woodward, President Trump said that ``nothing more could have been done'' to combat the coronavirus. ``Nothing more could have been done''--that is what President Trump said. Of the many lies the President has told about COVID-19, this is one of the most monumental and one of the most galling.…”