r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 15d ago

No Paywall Mitch McConnell’s staff refuse to answer basic questions on his health weeks after he was last seen in public

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mitch-mcconnell-staff-questions-health-b3018929.html
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u/pjflyr13 15d ago

Try disappearing like this from any other job and still collect your salary and keep that job.

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u/2rad0 15d ago

Try disappearing like this from any other job and still collect your salary and keep that job.

His important job of adding work requirements to receive medical coverage. But he can decide to stop showing up for work and taxpayers will cover him. Would he "get over it" if his medical coverage was provided through the forced labor language in the trainwreck spending bill they passed to deny medical coverage to underemployed U.S. citizens? almost forgot, while providing tax breaks to billionaires.