After McConnell’s home in Louisville was marked with graffiti on Saturday morning, the Kentucky Republican denounced the incident as a “radical tantrum”.
“Vandalism and the politics of fear have no place in our society. My wife and I were never intimidated by this toxic manual. We just hope that our neighbors in Louisville will not be too disturbed by this radical tantrum,” McConnell said in a statement.
The 5th Division of the Louisville Metro Police Department is investigating the matter and has yet to identify any suspect (s), said spokesman Dwight Mitchell.
At dawn on Friday, a house in San Francisco belonging to Pelosi was vandalized, according to the San Francisco Police Department.
“Unidentified suspects painted graffiti on the garage door and left a pig’s head on the sidewalk,” said the police department in a statement obtained by CNN.
The SFPD Special Investigations Division is investigating. CNN contacted Pelosi for comment.
The two separate incidents occur when Senate Democrats and independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont press unsuccessfully for a Senate vote on $ 2,000 stimulus checks on Friday as the clock ends at the 116th Congress .
The effort was blocked by Senate Republicans, including McConnell, who widely argued that increasing stimulus checks would not be the kind of “targeted relief” needed to respond to the economic crisis caused by the pandemic, despite the fact that President Donald Trump he asked for that amount and the House of Representatives approved on Monday a measure to increase direct payments to Americans.
McConnell criticized the pressure to increase checks, repeatedly saying that value “just isn’t the right approach” and repeating the argument that much of it is “socialism for the rich”.
The second stimulus package that Congress approved included direct payments of $ 600, half the amount provided in the first round of checks, which came out in the spring.
CNN’s Clare Foran and Ali Zaslav contributed to this report.