Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday dismissed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) threat to go “scorched earth” politics if Democrats abolish the filibuster. In an interview on “The Late Show,” host Stephen Colbert asked Schumer “what could possibly be more scorched earth than the way Mitch McConnell has just run roughshod for the past four to eight years, really?”“I mean, isn’t he threatening that if you do this, Mitch McConnell will continue to be Mitch McConnell?”Schumer agreed. “We used to call the Senate, when he was in charge, the legislative graveyard,” Schumer recalled. “I’m not even going to give this blustery threat credence,” Schumer responded. Period.”Watch the interview here:TONIGHT: Senate Majority Leader @SenSchumer says he is not fazed by Sen. McConnell’s “empty threat" of a "scorched earth" Senate.

Source: Huffington Post March 19, 2021 06:44 UTC