Mitch McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was the latest Republican to be met with insults from protesters while going back to his car on Saturday in Kentucky. McConnell was met with both political and personal insults outside a parking lot at a Louisville restaurant.

                     

In a video posted by one of the protesters at the scene, protesters can be heard chanting "vote you out!" and "abolish ICE!", and another man in the video can be heard saying to McConnell,  "Turtle heads" and another telling him "we know where you live", as McConell and two other people who had joined him climbed into the vehicle.

This is the second protest against McConnell in 2 weeks. In the last week of June, while in the company of his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, they were confronted by protesters while leaving an event at Georgetown University.

The protesters are protesting McConnell support of the Trump administration of the "zero tolerance" policy that separates the children from the mother, something McConnell is not actually supporting.

Watch video here:

                   

The democratic socialists of Louisville have now responded to the protests, by saying through three of its members were among the protesters, the group is not affiliated with the man that shouted he knows where the senator lives. Read the statement by the DSA;

This person is not a DSA member, nor do we know who he is or what he meant by that statement. We believe it is a reference to peacefully protesting in front of McConnell's house, which is a regular occurrence in Louisville. However, we cannot speak more to the comment because it did not come from our organization or our members.

 

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Former president Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, is causing a standoff in the US Congress, and might lead to a government shutdown in 2 days if both Republicans and Democrats do not come back to a negotiation table.

                  

The Republicans who had supported the bill arenow tossing it.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday, said that the congress would only be a spinning wheel if it voted for DACA and President Trump is not willing, and won't sign it. McConnell said; "I’m looking for something that President Trump supports and he’s not yet indicated what measure he’s willing to sign. As soon as we figure out what he is for then I would be convinced that we were not just spinning our wheels going to this issue on the floor."

President Trump in his meeting with a few members of Congress indicated that if the Democrats wants DACA deal, they must be ready to include the US-Mexico border wall to the spending bill, a move that Democrats reject, even though President Trump in his election promises had told the voters that Mexico will pay for the wall along the border.

Another twist on the wall happened on Wednesday when the White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that the promise of Trump building a wall on the Southern border shows he is uninformed, and said that the White House is no longer pursuing the US-Mexico wall policy.

Kelly also said that some areas in the border does not need a wall, and Trump probably did not know that.

A government shutdown looms in the US Congress, and might happen as early as Friday. If this happens, according to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, it is the Republican responsibility because they control the House, and also the White House.

Democrats have vowed that it will not support a spending deal, without the DACA protection.

The DACA deal would have given 690,000 DREAMers- undocumented  people who had entered the US illegally as kids a path to citizenship. Last September, Trump said he will look to cancel the program, after it expires in March 5.

Republicans are working to keep the government afloat to Mid-February with short-term funding, but it will also need the support of nine Democrats to pass the bill. To be able to cajole the Democrats in supporting the short-term funding, and prevent a total government shutdown, Republicans are offering a six year extension to the Children’s Health Insurance Program -CHIP, a program that subsidized health insurance for kids of low income family, which is supposed to lapse in September, also Congress has now approved some funding that will keep the program going till end of the year.

Democrats will now have to choose to keep CHIP for now, or refused to end and cause a full government shut down. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is saying that there is no going to be a deal if DACA are CHIP are not included.

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Republicans have voted early Thursday to start the repealing of one of the President Obama signature, Obamacare. The repealing of the Affordable care act by Republicans senators has been one of the goals, which aligns with the campaign rhetoric of president-elect Donald J. Trump.

The senators voted 51-48 to approve a budget resolution that Republicans will use to speed through repealing the ACA.

                   

                                          The senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell

The senator believes that the 2010 health care law is broken and should be immediately replaced by something else, though they are yet to come up with such plan. The senators cite the sky rocketing premium prices, high deductibles and fewer health care choice as insurance company seems to be pulling out of the program.

The senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell why speaking on the replacing and replacing of the health care law said;

When Obamacare’s supporters forced their partisan law on our country, they promised an easy-to-use system; one that would lower premiums and out-of-pocket health care costs; one that would foster choice and allow families to keep the plans and doctors they liked, but it didn’t take long for the American people to discover the truth about Obamacare. Too many have been personally hurt by this law. Too many feel they’re worse off than they were before Obamacare.

Senator Patty Murray of Washington and the senior Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee while speaking on the Republicans act to repeal the law says;

Ripping apart our health care system — with no plan to replace it — will create chaos.

If Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act, it’s women, kids, seniors, patients with serious illnesses, and people with disabilities who will bear the burden.

Premiums will skyrocket,Out-of-pocket prescription drug costs will rise. And overall health care costs will increase. It’s a perfect storm to make America sick again — and absolutely the wrong direction for families and for our economy.

The president-elect and house republicans are yet to offer a program that will be used to replace Obamacare. 

Speaker of the house, Paul Ryan, also said;

It is our goal to bring it all together concurrently. We’re going to use every tool at our disposal through legislation, through regulation, to bring replace concurrent along with repeal, so that we can save people from this mess.

In his news conference on Wednesday, Donald Trump said that he would offer a detailed plan on replacement plan when his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary,Republican Rep. Tom Price of Georgia is confirmed by the senate.

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