Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was hospitalized on Sunday for unspecified reasons, but the 84-year-old senator’s adviser said he was receiving “excellent care.”
“Senator McConnell was admitted to the hospital this morning,” McConnell spokesman David Popp said in a statement. “He is receiving excellent care.”
McConnell announced his retirement following a February 2025 fall that was caught on camera as he left the Senate chambers. He plans to finish out his term that ends in January 2027.
The seven-term senator had been admitted to the hospital earlier this year for “flu-like” symptoms. McConnell has experienced several falls in the past several years, but his office has often pointed to his leg stiffness as a result of childhood polio.
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McConnell has used his road to retirement to do something he had not previously had the opportunity to do: break with President Donald Trump. He has ripped Trump over the now-dead “anti-weaponization fund” and tariffs that the senator perceived as coziness with Russia.
Several Republicans were vying to succeed McConnell in the Bluegrass State, but Trump-backed Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), who once interned for McConnell, won the nomination.