McConnell is using the economic revenue losses states are having because of the coronavirus to attack blue states. In fact, blue states subsidize red states like McConnell’s Kentucky.
Republican Rep Greg Murphy says on CNN that states should have managed money better and built rainy day funds, so should explore bankruptcy. He doesn’t explain why that wouldn’t apply to companies.
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) April 25, 2020
It's getting dangerously close to the point where @WhiteHouse & @GOP leadership are openingly willing to spend $ to save #Republican lives, but not to save #Democrat lives. This Red State/Blue State approach to public health is immoral and dangerous. https://t.co/XEPI4z014P
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 25, 2020
“Because Rs hold the Senate, the federal judiciary has shifted in conservative direction.
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) April 26, 2020
“State bankruptcy would enable GOP based in the poorer states to use its federal ascendancy to impose its priorities upon the budgets of richer Democratic states”
https://t.co/FEajyOmbPU
To understand why McConnell wants Blue States to declare bankruptcy, it's important to understand not only McConnell, but also "bankruptcy." My latest in @TheAtlantic https://t.co/PU08ZWtpik
— David Frum (@davidfrum) April 26, 2020
"… State bankruptcy is not some passing fancy. Republicans have been advancing the idea for more than a decade." https://t.co/4F1jOkTdyB
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) April 25, 2020
NY has given $116 billion more to the federal government than we received since 2015.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) April 24, 2020
Kentucky *took* $148 billion more from the federal government than it gave.
Just give NY our money back, Senator McConnell. pic.twitter.com/kejNSU2oK5
Actually, they squandered billions of dollars on states like Arkansas. https://t.co/KMegdND3ou
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 25, 2020
McConnell's outrageous scheme to block aid for hard-hit states and localities isn't just hardball politics
— Will Bunch Sign Up For My Newsletter (@Will_Bunch) April 26, 2020
It's a scorched-earth policy to crush unions and cause pain in what really needs to be GOP's last hurrah
My new column: https://t.co/PeIrMfSEBq
Governors criticize Senate Majority Leader McConnell for saying this week he would prefer states to be able to declare bankruptcy rather than provide hundreds of billions in relief as state and local government revenue dries up. https://t.co/pc6qePFkER
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 26, 2020
Gov. Whitmer: McConnell's 'bankruptcy' suggestion is "outrageous" and "incredibly dangerous. I don't think that the vast majority of governors in this country, Republican and Democratic, would agree with him. He’s wrong and we need Congress to step up and help states." Via ABC pic.twitter.com/SIP4dGrXXi
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 26, 2020
“What Senator McConnell said was absolutely disgraceful,” Rep. King says in response to McConnell’s remarks, in which he suggested states could file for bankruptcy amid the coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/1hr3BhWNrl
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 26, 2020
The options are not “the feds give states money, or states default on their debts and debt-like obligations.” The options are “the feds give states money, or states implement economically destructive austerity.” So bankruptcy is a red herring. https://t.co/zU2pwhEm1B
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) April 26, 2020
Kevin Hassett on ABC on McConnell: “I’m just an economist, but it feels like the Constitution doesn't really allow states to declare bankruptcy & so … they're going to have to work things out & the federal government is going to probably have to help them, too.”
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) April 26, 2020
Sad! 