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发帖数: 4527 | 1 Furious customers confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
at a Louisville restaurant on Friday, with one telling him to “leave the
country alone.”
That diner also warned other customers: “They’re going to come for your
Social Security.”
McConnell recently made headlines when he said that programs such as Social
Security need to be cut to help make up for the Trump administration’s $779
billion budget deficit, the highest mark for that figure in six years.
The deficit has grown in the wake of the Republican Congress approving a big
boost in military spending and massive tax cuts that were especially
generous for corporations. McConnell, however, wants to target Social
Security, Medicaid and Medicare for cost reductions as the way to respond to
the deficit.
Customer Casey Leek told The Louisville Courier-Journal that a woman
confronted McConnell at the Cuban restaurant Havana Rumba, calling him a “
traitor” as other diners clapped and cheered.
Then another angry diner captured on video obtained by TMZ harangued
McConnell as he sat quietly with his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine
Chao.
”Why don’t you get out of here? Why don’t you leave the entire country
alone?” the unidentified customer asked.
Leek said the man grabbed McConnell’s to-go box of leftovers and dumped the
food on the sidewalk outside. Other diners appeared to speak up to support
the protester — with one yelling “Ditch Mitch” — while some urged him to
leave the senator alone. USA Today said as many as four men confronted
McConnell, though only one was captured on video.
The woman who recorded the video told TMZ the diner was protesting McConnell
’s threats to cut Social Security and health care programs. | b********n
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