It isn’t the welfare of the American people; we already learned that in 2009. It certainly isn’t the suffering of hundreds of millions of residents of blue states; they can go to hell, as far as he’s concerned, even though their tax money keeps his state afloat. No, what really moves Mitch is, as you might have guessed, the prospect of losing his job as Majority Leader! His two Georgia senators are taking a beating for doing nothing on the pandemic, so action on a stimulus package has suddenly become imperative for him.
Pathetic, but true. It tells you how Biden will have to manage him for the next two years.