Mitch McConnell, a Republican ... By March 14, the failure to pass full-year defense appropriations last fall will have cost taxpayers $17 billion in defense buying power. In other words ...

Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has voted against three ... the Senate should withhold its consent" when nominees fall short. His refusal to meet with Trump's nominees ahead ...

When asked about attacks on his record from prospective candidates running for his seat in 2026, McConnell gave a short ...

We laughed. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has a gruff charm. That was his way of poking fun at me when I saw him around town. For a long time, I wanted to quickly snap back by thanking him for ...

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The announced retirement of Senator Mitch McConnell, the erstwhile longest-serving Republican leader in Senate history and one of the most consequential lawmakers of his era, was not unexpected.

After nearly four decades in the Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) long tenure is finally coming to an end. Some have hailed him as a master strategist, a guardian of conservative ...

When Mitch McConnell took to the floor of the US Senate last week, on his 83d birthday, to announce that he won’t be running for reelection again, he talked about how unlikely it had once seemed ...

Photo: Nathan Howard/Reuters/Saul Loeb/Al Drago - Pool via CNP/Zuma Press If you want to hear many Republican lawmakers’ inner monologue these days, listen to Mitch McConnell. On Monday the ...

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell has said he will not run for reelection in 2026, opening up a U.S. Senate seat he's held since 1984. Former Attorney General Daniel Cameron has announced he's running.

“I’m avoiding getting too high on the good days and too low on the bad days,” Mitch McConnell was telling me. “Is today a good day or a bad day?” I asked him. “Yeah,” was all ...