The homes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have been vandalized, police have confirmed.
As reported by CNN, the homes of the two highest-ranking members of Congress were targetted by vandals over the New Year's weekend, police have confirmed.
The two separate incidents come after the Senate's failed efforts to increase stimulus checks to $2,000 for millions of Americans in need.
On Friday (January 1), Senate Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont pushed - without success - for a Senate vote on $2,000 stimulus checks
The two separate incidents come as Senate Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont pushed, without success, for a Senate vote on $2,000 stimulus checks before the conclusion of the 116th Congress.
Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home was photographed covered in graffiti, ABC News reports, with the phrases "$2K", "Cancel rent!" and "We want everything" sprayed on her walls and garage door.
Vandals also left a pig's head outside on the driveway, along with "fake blood".
ABC News adds that San Francisco police confirmed that they had responded to a call reporting the vandalism at 2:00AM on January 1. The SFPD Special Investigations Division later asked anybody with any information to come forward.
As of Friday afternoon, Pelosi's garage door had been covered with black garbage bags.
Audrey Carlson, a resident of the Pacific Heights neighborhood for 38 years, said of the incident: "There are a lot of unresolved issues and I don't think this is a useful way to go about it and a terrible start to this New Year."
Also the target of vandals was Mitch McConnell's Louisville home, which was marked with graffiti early Saturday morning.
Per CNN, the Senate Majority Leader has largely argued against increasing stimulus checks, stating that the amount is "simply not the right approach" and that it would not be the kind of "targeted relief" necessary to respond to the economic distress caused by the pandemic.
Denouncing the vandalism to his home as a "radical tantrum", McConnell later said in a statement:
"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."
In photographs taken by CNN affiliate WDRB, "Were's my money [sic]" was scrawled on McConnell's front door.
The Louisville Metro Police Department's 5th Division has yet to identify any suspects.