McConnell did this for decades, attaching things like military spending to bills that the Dems were sure to vote down so he could call them anti-troops and rile the base. Playing dirty. Political suckerpunching. He undermined every Dem majority he operated under this way, and it worked. Here we are.

People talking about it never getting passed are missing the point. Proposals cost nothing and gain you political propaganda that you can browbeat the opposition with. Democrats need to fill the airwaves with how the Republicans are callous and inhumane, and this would support that.