Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate stands ready to vote on gun legislation in the wake of several mass shootings but only if he gets buy-in from Pres. Trump.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that the Senate stands ready to vote on gun legislation in the wake of several mass shootings but only he gets buy-in from President Donald Trump.
"I said several weeks ago that if the president took a position on a bill, so that we knew we would actually be making a law, and not just having serial votes, I’d be happy to put it on the floor,” McConnell said. "We'd just have people scoring political points and nothing would happen," McConnell said at the time.
But it's unclear which measure the White House supports and if it would include implementing universal background checks or simply expanding on current background checks.
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