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McConnell remarks on state aid land with thud with governor

by Associated Press
| August 12, 2020 5:03 PM

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell referred to additional federal aid to cash-strapped states as a “slush fund" — comments that landed with a thud with his home-state governor.

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