Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell’s homes both vandalised

‘Where’s my money’ written on Mitch McConnell’s door while pig’s head and trail of red paint left on Nancy Pelosi’s driveway

The top two leaders in Congress both had their homes vandalised - apparently in response to the Covid relief bill that recently passed through Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's Senate.

Spraypainted messages on the garage door of Ms Pelosi's San Francisco home read "$2K," "Cancel rent!" and "We want everything!" A severed pigs head and a trail of red paint were left on her driveway, KPIX in San Francisco reported. A couple of circled A's could also be seen, a mark most often meant to symbolize anarchism. San Francisco police said that they first received a call about the incident around 2 AM in the morning on New Years Day. Ms Pelosi has so far not commented.

Democrats started to push for $2,000 direct payments after President Trump expressed disappointment that the most recent Covid relief bill only included $600 direct payments to struggling Americans. After the House passed the measure with the help of 44 Republicans, Mr McConnell blocked the bill in the Senate, saying that it would send "thousands of dollars to people who don’t need the help", POLITICO wrote.

One of Ms Pelosi's neighbours, Audrey Carlson, told KPIX that she did n’ot think the vandalism was a "useful way to go about it and it’s a terrible start to this new year when we are hoping for less anger and hatred than we’ve had to deal with for the last year”.  

"Where's my money," was spray painted on the front door of Mitch McConnell's Louisville house in Kentucky. Other more profane messages were painted along the front porch, WDRB writes.

Mr McConnell issued a statement saying that while he has defended the First Amendment throughout his career, this was "different". 

"Vandalism and the politics of fear have no place in our society. My wife and I have never been intimidated by this toxic playbook. We just hope our neighbors in Louisville aren’t too inconvenienced by this radical tantrum," WYMT reported him as saying.

Donald Trump is widely considered to have employed the “politics of fear” since his 2016 campaign and during his presidency, many Republicans have been afraid to speak out of fear of reprisals from the President. Mr McConnell’s lack of forceful rebuttals of Mr Trump’s transgressions is thought to have enabled Mr Trump’s use of fear as a political strategy. 

President-elect Joe Biden called the December relief bill a “down payment” and has indicated that more is to come. That will most likely depend on two Senate runoffs in Georgia on January 5, which will determine whether Mr McConnell will retain control of the Senate. 

Ms Pelosi’s San Francisco home has previously been the site of protests. In September, demonstrators gathered outside her home enraged over her maskless visit to a hair salon that had been closed due to Covid regulations. 

That same month, a YouTuber appeared to live-stream himself defecating on Ms Pelosi’s driveway, The New York Post reported.

Demonstrators also gathered outside Mr McConnell’s home in Kentucky multiple times in September, protesting his decision to fill the Supreme Court of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, among other issues, according to several reports by the Louisville Courier Journal.