McConnell slams ‘absurd’ Biden plan to pay some illegal immigrant families $1 million

Published November 1, 2021 9:20pm ET



Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday slammed a Biden administration plan to pay nearly a million dollars to some illegal immigrant families separated at the southern border during the Trump administration.

“This absurd idea feels like a satirical policy proposal that Republicans would have invented to make a parody out of the radical Left,” McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said Monday. “But this is literally what the Biden administration wants to do, according to reports they have not denied.”

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