'It's unfair on a personal level, but even just looking at public health, it is terrible policy for rural America. We cannot have President Biden mass-firing doctors and nurses when hospitals are already short-staffed... If Washington Democrats could safely hobnob in the Capitol all Tuesday evening with no masks, then they ought to stop pushing mass firings of essential health workers.'
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks Thursday, March 3, 2022 on the Senate floor regarding healthcare: