McConnell: Pelosi’s holdout for $2.2 trillion COVID-19 aid package ‘backfired’

Published November 30, 2020 10:02pm ET



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants Speaker Nancy Pelosi to back off demands for a $2.2 trillion coronavirus aid package, declaring her party lost leverage in the election.

“Their all-or-nothing strategy backfired,” the Kentucky Republican said in a Senate floor speech Monday.

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