Newsman: The homes of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were vandalized days after Congress failed to approve a measure to increase coronavirus stimulus checks to $2,000. The San Francisco Police Department’s Special Investigations Division is looking into the vandalism. The Louisville Police did not immediately made any comment to the news media on Saturday. President Trump asked the congress to increase the stimulus checks for $2000 instead of $600 and said he signed the bill on condition that both Republican and democrats will unanimously come to the decision to increase the stimulus checks for $2000.
Pictures captured local news media on Saturday showed the words “WERES MY MONEY” scrawled in white spray paint on the front door of McConnell’s Louisville, Kentucky, home. “MITCH KILLS THE POOR” was written in red on a window. At Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home, a garage door was defaced on Friday with phrases including “$2K,” “Cancel rent!” and “We want everything!”Police said a pig’s head and fake blood were left on the ground.
The Republican leader said in a statement, “I’ve spent my career fighting for the First Amendment and defending peaceful protest. I appreciate every Kentuckian who has engaged in the democratic process whether they agree with me or not.” “This is different. Vandalism and the politics of fear have no place in our society.” McConnell said he and his wife were not intimidated, but “hope our neighbors in Louisville aren’t too inconvenienced by this radical tantrum.”
Speaker Pelosi has not yet responded to the vandalism or commented.
The House passed the CASH Act on Monday to increase stimulus payments from $600 to $2,000 to help people during the coronavirus pandemic, but it was blocked by McConnell who said the bill had “no realistic path to quickly pass the Senate.”
“The Senate’s not going to be bullied into rushing out more borrowed money into the hands of Democrats’ rich friends who don’t need the help,” he said on the Senate floor.
