The former GOP leader can more freely speak his mind on nominees and defense, but his influence is limited.

US Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) gives a thumbs up while arriving at the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard as President Donald ...

McConnell was hardly alone among Senate Republicans in raising doubts about Gabbard, Kennedy and Defense Secretary Pete ...

The former Senate majority leader couldn’t get a single Republican to vote with him against confirming Tulsi Gabbard as ...

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy once stood up to Donald Trump's excesses, even as then-Senate GOP leader enabled them.Those days are ...

The GOP's recent and longest-serving Senate party leader has stood in opposition to his conference multiple times, ...

No longer in charge, Sen. Mitch McConnell has been speaking his mind. The long-serving former Republican leader rejected ...

A spokesperson for the former Senate leader said he was fine and the "lingering effects of polio" won't disrupt his work.

President Donald Trump derided former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell ... stand out as all the more egregious." McConnell's successor, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., reacted ...

President Donald Trump seems to have questioned a well-documented part of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s life — his childhood battle with polio.

Out of power in the Senate and serving likely his last term, Sen. Mitch McConnell has often found himself on an island among ...

Analysis: Mitch McConnell’s resistance against Trump nominees should not be mistaken for the sudden evolution of a spine, ...