Wash that hand, Mitch.

The AWOL Senate Majority Leader, subject to a weekend of #WheresMitch outrage, wants the world to know he's aware of the "urgent priorities" the Senate is facing this week. Like passing the bill the House passed Friday night to fight the outbreak of COVID-19. The bill, negotiated between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, will provide sick leave to workers who don't have it, increase Medicaid funding, pump up unemployment insurance, and ensure food security. As the nation shuts down in response to novel coronavirus, we need that bill. Immediately. So what's so urgent for Mitch? Not this bill.

In fact, it now looks like his Senate won't take up the bill until the last half of this week because there are Republicans who want to vote against it. Let that sink in. They want to vote against it. What could have happened, what should have happened, was two senators going to the Senate floor on Saturday and passing the bill by unanimous consent. If McConnell gave a damn about the nation, he would have made that happen. He doesn't and he didn't.

The nation deserves and needs so much better. Please give $1 to our nominee fund to help Democrats end McConnell's career as majority leader.

