U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) listens to a matter from a journalist during a weekly press conference within the U.S. Capitol constructing in Washington, January 31, 2023.
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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is being treated for a concussion at a hospital after he fell at a hotel, his office said Thursday.
McConnell, 81, is anticipated to stay hospitalized “for a number of days of remark and treatment,” in response to a press release from his spokesman David Popp.
“The Leader is grateful to the medical professionals for his or her care and to his colleagues for his or her warm wishes,” the statement said.
McConnell’s office revealed late Wednesday night that the Kentucky Republican was admitted to a hospital after tripping during a non-public dinner. The autumn reportedly got here after an event in Washington, D.C., for the Senate Leadership Fund, an excellent PAC aligned with GOP leadership.
“Jill and I are wishing Senator McConnell a speedy recovery,” President Joe Biden said in a tweet earlier Thursday afternoon. “We sit up for seeing him back on the Senate floor.”
McConnell was reelected in 2020 to a seventh term within the Senate. He served as Senate majority leader from 2015 until 2021, when Democrats regained majority control of the chamber.
He was reelected because the Senate’s minority leader last November, prevailing over sustained criticism from the Republican Party’s de facto leader, former President Donald Trump.
