Mitch McConnell digs in against $2,000 checks: ‘Senate is not going to be bullied’

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday said Republicans wouldn’t be “bullied” into a scattershot handout of $2,000 stimulus checks, declaring the effort all but dead in the upper chamber.

He said the nearly $500 billion plan pushed by Democrats would drive up debt and shower money on Americans regardless …