Senator Mcconell was in Lexington today

honoring frontline workers in Lexington

In the state to 8,951.

Senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was in lexington today... and speaking out about a weekend protest where an effigy of governor beshear was hung from a tree.

What started as a rally for second amendment rights sunday... turned into a protest over coronavirus restrictions.

A group of protesters hung the effigy from the tree just outisde the governor's, as you can see in this photo from the courier journal's sarah ladd.

The words on the front..

A latin phrase meaning "thus i always bring death to tyrants."

Mcconnell condemed the act in a tweet on sunday... and did so again today.

L3: coronavirus outbreak white senate majority leader mitch mcconnell (r) - kentucky "yeah, completely outrageous and unacceptable.

We all believe in the freedom to speak in this country and the opportunity to demonstrate peacefully, but that episode i believe on sunday, completely unacceptable.

That's not what kentucky is.

I hope we will not be seeing that again."

As we mentioned... senator mcconnell was in lexington today.

He was here for an event at the university of kentucky... honoring frontline healthcare workers.

He also talked the cares act .... the largest relief package in history.

But... according to mcconnell... it's probably not the last covid-19 relief coming from congress.

Here's abc 36's austin miller with more.

Immediately after speaking at the event at the university of kentucky... where he discussed the impact of the cares act on kentucky.... u.s. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was asked if more financial relief would be on the way from congress.

The democratic-led house passed a $3 trillion rescue package earlier this month.

Mcconnell says senate republicans have no plans to pass it.... but says another relief bill is likely.

"it will be a serious proposal.

It will be confined to directly dealing with the challenges that are the outgrowth of the coronavirus pandemic and not a sort of hodgepodge of other things that are unrelated to it."

And while he said last month he would rather states declare bankruptcy than get a bailout from the federal governonment... a statement that drew criticism from both sides of the aisle... mcconnell now says there is a chance states would received additional covid-19 relief funding.

"all of the governors, regardless of party, would like to have additional assistance.

That's a possibility, but i would remind everyone that we've sent a significant amount to the states already."

Mcconnell says the focus now needs to be taking steps to reopen the u-s economy.

"we can't keep propping up the economy forever.

We do need to begin to re- engage, to develop our activity again.

According to mcconnell... testing... treatment and coming up with a vaccine will be the keys to returning to normalcy.

He says the last covid-19 relief bill that passed the senate contained $25 billion for the trump administration-back program called operation warp speed.

The goal is to drastically cut the time needed to develop a coronavirus vaccine and make enough doses for most americans by year's end.

Several of them are in clinical trials already in case, not only in clinal trials, but in production, so that if the clinical trials prove successful, they will have already ramped up production, so that we can get a significant amount of doses not only for our country, but for the rest of the world" soc last week... governor beshear announced federal money