Staff report
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office has said he has been hospitalized, but offered no details.
“Senator McConnell was admitted to the hospital this morning (Sunday),” said the senator’s spokesperson David Popp in a written statement. “He is receiving excellent care.”
McConnell, the long-term serving senior senator from Kentucky, is 84 and has suffered a series of health problems and falls in recent years, including a series of episodes in 2023 in which he appeared to freeze on camera while speaking to reporters.
He has also had a number of falls, including one just recently. He suffered a concussion and was hospitalized after falling at a Washington hotel in 2023 and fell in the Capital multiple times after that. In February, he was hospitalized with flu-like symptoms.
McConnell was first elected in 1984 and stepped aside in January as majority leader after serving 18 years as his party’s leader in the upper chamber.
He has announced that he is retiring when his term ends in January.
Most recently he has become a more vocal critic of President Donald Trump, who he said was “practically and morally responsible for provoking the events” at the Capital on Jan. 6, 2021. He has also criticized the president’s proposed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, calling it a “slush fund” and “utterly stupid, morally wrong.”