WASHINGTON _ Mitch McConnell was in the middle of a recent Fox News interview boasting about his new moniker from Democrats as a "grim reaper" for legislation, railing against left-leaning policies like Medicare for all and the Green New Deal.
But the most powerful Republican on Capitol Hill also bashed an issue that Florida Republicans have supported for years: statehood for Puerto Rico.
"I am indeed the grim reaper when it comes to the socialist agenda that they've been ginning up over in the House with overwhelming Democratic support," McConnell said to Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "They're on their way to doing some additional things in addition to the ones they've already done, the Green New Deal, Medicare for all ... They plan to make the District of Columbia a state, that would give them two new Democratic senators, Puerto Rico a state, we give them two more Democratic senators. As long as I'm the majority leader of the Senate none of that stuff is going anywhere."
