USA Today: “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that people will begin to work once they run out of savings.
“You’ve got a whole lot of people sitting on the sidelines because, frankly, they’re flush for the moment,” he said at an event in his home state of Kentucky. “What we’ve got to hope is once they run out of money, they’ll start concluding it’s better to work than not to work.”
It’s not the first time he’s made that argument. McConnell criticized the COVID stimulus package in a March 2021 interview with Fox News, and said Americans may decide not to return to work as a result of the $1,400 stimulus check. “There is a concern about making it more advantageous to stay home rather than going back to work,” he said.”