Mitch McConnell says voters will ‘get over’ losing Medicaid. That’s a risky bet. It’s true that many voters have short ...

McConnell obstructed former President Barack Obama's agenda in a big way during his first two years as majority leader in 2015 and 2016, and Cizmar predicted he and his GOP colleagues would take a ...

He’s got some pretty rabid isolationists over at [the Department of Defense] — you could argue the vice president is in that ...

According to his U.S. Senate biography, McConnell is the second Kentuckian to be majority leader of the Senate after Sen. Alben Barkley, Democratic majority leader from 1937-49. McConnell acted as ...

Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced in a floor speech Thursday that he won't be running for re-election in 2026, capping four decades in the Senate and a record as the ...

President Trump speaks alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sept. 5, 2017. McConnell helped push Trump's first-term agenda through the Senate, but their relationship ultimately frayed.

As majority leader, McConnell subverted one of the long-standing norms of the body in 2017, when Republicans invoked the “nuclear option,” allowing for Supreme Court justices to be confirmed ...

As Senate majority leader, McConnell wielded immense power, and was singularly responsible for the fast rate at which President Trump's judicial nominees were confirmed during his first term.

President Donald Trump urged Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to break his Constitutional oath and refuse to vote on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee before the 2016 Election.

With the 2026 midterm elections about 16 months off, specifics of congressional churn are becoming clearer. Per the chart below, a swath of House members is giving up their seats in bids for statewide ...

At the end of February, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate majority leader in American history, had announced he would step down from his post after the November election.