The Republican Senate leader says statehood for the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico represents “full bore socialism on the march”
As the new Congress convened earlier this year, featuring a freshmen class of progressives, Senate Majority Leaderto do all he could to thwart Democratic proposals that made it to the Senate. Things like the Green New Deal and Medicare For All “won’t even be voted on,” he promised. “So think of me as the Grim Reaper: The guy who is going to make sure that socialism doesn’t land on the president’s desk.
in which he excoriated the new push to grant statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. “They plan to make the District of Columbia a state—that’d give them two new Democratic senators—Puerto Rico a state, that would give them two more new Democratic senators. And as a former Supreme Court clerk yourself, you’ve surely noticed that they plan to expand the Supreme Court,” he told“So this is full bore socialism on the march in the House.
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