Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday refused to take a position on the House GOP’s fallback plan announced yesterday to extend the payroll tax cut without offsets.
“I can understand why the House leadership is exasperated with the lack of progress in the conference and looking around at other alternatives,” McConnell told reporters. “I don’t have a view on it right now, but I certainly understand their feeling of frustration.
The Kentucky Republican resisted multiple efforts by reporters to say if he would support the legislation if the House decides to adopt it — and took a shot at Democrats for letting it come to this.
“The difficulty we’ve had going back to December is getting our friends on the other side to cut any spending anywhere,” McConnell said.
