and more from the same interview:
"You raised yourself the important issue of what states have done, many of them have done it to themselves with their pension programs. There’s not going to be any desire on the Republican side to bail out state pensions by borrowing money from future generations," McConnell said, after Hewitt floated Illinois, California and Connecticut as examples of states that have overly generous benefits for public employees.
"We’ll certainly insist that anything we’d borrow to send down to the states is not spent on solving problems that they created for themselves over the years with their pension program," McConnell added.
I personally couldn't agree more - I don't think it is even close to appropriate for States to try to take advantage of the crisis and federal funding intended to deal with the crisis to bail out preexisting financial problems the States have created for themselves
As a side note - no place in this interview do I hear Mitch say he is against Federal aid for States for issues that are coronavirus related - - but that is what the media sure makes it sound like