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Judi Lynn

(160,408 posts)
Thu Apr 23, 2020, 12:33 AM Apr 2020

GOP Rep. Pete King Shreds 'Marie Antionette' Mitch McConnell's Bankruptcy Plan

04/23/2020 12:13 am ET

The Republican lawmaker called the Senate leader “shameful and indefensible.”

By Ed Mazza

- video

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday suggested that states could go bankrupt rather than get additional federal funding to deal with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

And at least one member of his own party is slamming the plan.

Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) ripped McConnell in a pair of tweets on Wednesday evening:







More:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-king-mitch-mcconell-state-bankruptcy-coronavirus_n_5ea1009fc5b699978a332f37
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GOP Rep. Pete King Shreds 'Marie Antionette' Mitch McConnell's Bankruptcy Plan (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2020 OP
Wow! Peter King? Who'a thunk it!!!? scarletwoman Apr 2020 #1
Maybe it's King being rational??? elleng Apr 2020 #2
Nah, that's too hard to believe... scarletwoman Apr 2020 #3
He's retiring. blm Apr 2020 #4
AHA! elleng Apr 2020 #5
K&R Blue Owl Apr 2020 #6

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)
1. Wow! Peter King? Who'a thunk it!!!?
Thu Apr 23, 2020, 12:36 AM
Apr 2020

Maybe it's King's revenge for losing all those committee assignments last year.

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