America is in crisis, but instead of stepping up and fighting for families, McConnell is insisting on fighting for corporations that are raking in billions of dollars while doing nothing to keep their employees safe from harm.

Porter’s tweet thread exposed how McConnell has spent months blocking stimulus relief, leaving essential workers and American families without help because he demands that corporations be given protections when they create unsafe conditions for employees.²

As Porter said, the liability shield prevents people from suing businesses that haven’t put in place necessary coronavirus safeguards. Think of the nursing homes that didn’t test employees and had patients die of COVID. The warehouses that refused to provide PPE. The grocery stores that put their employees in harm’s way rather than institute a mask mandate. All of those bad actors would be let off the hook indefinitely.

And make no mistake: The liability shield is McConnell’s pet project. If it passes in this bill, McConnell will never let another relief bill come up for a vote in 2021.

But if we don’t stop McConnell, he’ll spin this story as Congress holding up relief for the American people, not as McConnell himself selling out the people in favor of corporations.

Demand Progress is sounding the alarm about McConnell’s nefarious giveaway to corporations to stop the liability shield. Will you donate?

Yes, I’ll donate to help stop McConnell from sneaking liability shields into the COVID-19 relief bill.

Thanks for standing with us.

Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress

Sources:

1. Tweet by Rep. Katie Porter, December 8, 2020
2. Ibid.