House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) upped the ante on Thursday, calling Republicans “callous and immoral” for refusing to bring up an extension of emergency jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed.
“More than two million Americans lost their lifeline of emergency unemployment insurance thanks to Republicans’ callous and immoral refusal to act,” she told reporters. “I think that we shouldn’t mince our words here.”
The long-term unemployment benefits program expired on Dec. 28 and Republicans aren’t interested in reviving it. Senate Democrats’ efforts to resurrect the program have been blocked by GOP filibusters.
