Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) continued to attack laid-off workers in the middle of a health crisis, vowing that he would do everything he could to block an extension of additional unemployment benefits once they expire at the end of July.
“July the 31st is when this expires and I promise you, over our dead bodies, this will get reauthorized,” Graham said in front of South Carolina’s COVID-19 advisory team on Tuesday.
Graham argued that the benefits are so generous that people will opt to receive them rather than go to work, and called them an “aberration” he promised to fix. Continue reading.