Mitch McConnell is doing a really good job of completely wrecking the economy for Joe Biden Vice President Joe Biden walks from the Senate side to the House Side, with Senators Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, and Dick Durbin, before the State of the Union Address, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 28, 2014. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann) The new politics of the poor in Joe Biden’s and Mitch McConnell’s America Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to prevent COVID-19 relief because he insists that big business needs to be let off the hook for endangering and potentially killing their workers and customers. That's the poison pill he insists on being in any package. But that's not his only demand: He also wants to prevent state and local governments from getting any further assistance—that "blue state bailout" that he talked about last spring and summer before he gave up that framing. Now he just refuses to allow it, but without the incendiary language to justify his obstruction. As the bipartisan negotiations for help teeter because of McConnell's intransigence, states are trying to save small businesses on their own while at the same time bleeding jobs.