Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was caught off guard about FBI funding proposed in a massive Republican coronavirus relief bill.
WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to be caught off guard by a $1.75 billion provision to rebuild the FBI headquarters in downtown Washington that the White House inserted into the Kentucky Republican's own coronavirus relief bill he unveiled Monday.
"I am opposed to non-germane amendments, whether it's funding for the FBI building or for example in the House bill whether it's a tax cut for high income earners in blue states or other non-germane amendments like marijuana studies or aid to illegal immigrants," he told reporters Tuesday. Previous administrations have endorsed relocating to the Maryland or Virginia suburbs after government reports indicated it would be much more expensive and inefficient to rebuild on the same lot, a parcel of prime real estate only a few blocks from the White House.
. When a reporter quoted him the text of the provision, McConnell said"you'll have to ask" the White House about the request. "That makes no sense to me," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters Tuesday, adding he'd be"fine" stripping out the money. "There are a number of things in the last bill that had nothing to do with the coronavirus," he said."I think everybody acknowledges that it's a funding mechanism. And I don't see it standing in the way of us getting a deal.”
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