The President of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi. – Jacquelyn Martin / AP / SIPA
The domicile of the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell , and that of the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi , have been vandalized, have US media reported. A pig’s head and fake blood were found in front of Nancy Pelosi’s house in
San Francisco on January 2, according to local media on Saturday. The inscription “$ 2K” (2. dollars) crossed out was also spray painted on his garage door, followed by the phrases “Cancel the rent!” “And” We want it all. “
The inscriptions “Where’s my money” and “Mitch kill the poor” were written on the front door and a window of Mitch McConnell’s house in Louisville, Kentucky, according to US media. According to police, the incident took place around 5 a.m., local news station WAS said , without it being clearly established whether anyone was in the house at that time. Mitch McConnell called the graffiti a “radical temper tantrum.” “There is no place in our society for vandalism and the politics of fear,” he added.
“The Senate will not be intimidated”
These acts of vandalism come after an intense debate on the American stimulus plan of some 600 billion dollars to deal with the Covid pandemic – 11, adopted by parliamentarians and then ratified by President Donald Trump at the end of December after several days of resistance. Republicans in Congress have blocked a Democrats’ proposal to more than triple the amount of checks to be sent to the most vulnerable Americans as part of this new stimulus package, to 2. 000 dollars per adult instead of 310 dollars, an increase supported by Donald Trump.
“The Senate is not going to be let intimidate to rush out more borrowed funds, which will go into the hands of rich friends of the Democrats who do not need this help, “Mitch McConnell told reporters on Wednesday. Mitch McConnell also called it “socialism for the rich,” since the check will also go “to households that have not lost jobs or income.”