Thread by @CraigCaplan

Schumer from the Senate floor announces the Senate plans on $1.9T COVID-19 relief bill:

"As early as tonight, the Senate will move to take up the American Rescue Plan."

Schumer responding to Republicans on $1.9T COVID-19 relief bill: "This bill is not a liberal wish list. It's an American wish list."

Schumer from Senate floor announced changes in Senate Sergeant at Arms leadership following the January 6th attack on US Capitol:"This will be the first time in the Senate's history that the Sergeant at Arms leadership will be comprised entirely of women."

https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1367138831657541633

McConnell from Senate floor on $1.9T COVID-19 relief bill: "Aspects of the House bill are already dropping like flies before this thing even hits the Senate floor.A pet project for the San Francisco Bay area,gone.Special upgrades for a bridge connecting New York to Canada,gone."

McConnell: "Senator Sanders' far-left minimum wage policy that would have killed 1.4M jobs just as we try to recover, that appears to be gone too at least for now."

Mcconnell: "Several our our Democratic colleagues are frantically trying to trim back other crazy provisions. The runaway government bailouts, the policies that will keep workers at home, when we should be focusing on rehiring."

McConnell on border crisis:”Both Pres Biden & his Sec of Homeland Security have said this wk they don’t think this is a crisis. Not a crisis,they say.Well if this isn’t a crisis,w/unaccompanied kids pouring in and exceeding capacity amid a pandemic,then I’d sure hate to see one.”