claim: says mitch mcconnell credits republicans "for recent economic improvements" even though they took control of the senate only "days ago."
author: gwen moore
evidence_1: jan 7, 2015 ... senate majority leader mitch mcconnell (r-ky.) ... all the while, even as  mcconnell whined, economic conditions just ... two days before christmas,  americans learned that gdp growth in the third quarter of 2014 reached an 11- year high. and what did the republican senate leader have to say about it at ...
evidence_2: gwen moore · says mitch mcconnell credits republicans "for recent economic  improvements" even though they took control of the senate only "days ago.".
evidence_3: dec 1, 2017 ... senate republicans made major changes to their bill and picked up the votes to  ... majority leader mitch mcconnell walked to the senate chamber after a ...  saying, “biggest tax bill and tax cuts in history just passed in the senate. .... to  deficits over a decade, even after accounting for economic growth.
evidence_4: dec 20, 2017 ... the bill passed the senate 51 to 48 just before 1 a.m., with no democrats  backing the bill while all republicans present voted for it. ... of a historic  opportunity," senate majority leader mitch mcconnell (r-ky.) ... trillion to the  deficit over a decade, even when projected economic growth is taken into  account.
evidence_5: oct 16, 2018 ... even as growth has accelerated, the treasury reported that the 2018 ... boost the  federal budget deficit because the economy would "take off like a rocket ship. ...  he first proposed a $10 trillion tax cut far larger than any republican rival's ... "we  fully anticipate," said senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, ...