McConnell: $600 for Unemployment Bonus Has Created a Problem

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks to reporters following the Senate Republicans weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 9, 2020. Leah Millis/Reuters

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaled that the $600 per week unemployment insurance bonus won’t last, adding that it has created a U.S.-wide problem of people not wanting to head back to work.

“It has made it harder for us to get people back to work, we’ve actually made it more challenging to get people back to work,” McConnell told reporters on Friday afternoon about the bonus.