Sen. John Kennedy suggested that Democrats are divorced from reality in wanting to pass a $3 trillion stimulus bill in response to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Louisiana Republican has described the package as “dead as fried chicken” in the Republican-controlled Senate. The House, which has a Democratic majority, passed the bill Friday, but the Senate has no immediate plans to take it up.
“It’s $3 trillion, for one thing. Every penny of which we would have to borrow,” Kennedy told Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures. “That’s three, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero dollars.”
“It’s not going to pass the Senate, nor should it. My fellow Republicans in the Senate have tried to see things from the speaker’s point of view, but we can’t get our heads that far up our rear ends,” he added.
Kennedy argued that the bill was an effort by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to “rewrite the rules for American society” because it includes stimulus payments for illegal immigrants, the marijuana industry, and same-day and mail-in voting requirements for states conducting federal elections.
“I don’t think any fair-minded American would agree once they read the bill,” he said.
