Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is seen throughout a Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Division of Protection funds listening to on the Dirksen Senate Workplace Constructing in Washington, DC on Could 19, 2026.
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Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., mentioned Thursday he has been discharged from a rehabilitation facility and can sustain along with his Senate work from house, as he continues to recuperate following practically two months of medical care after a fall.
“On the recommendation of my docs, I am going to preserve an intensive routine of bodily remedy from house through the state work interval,” the 84-year-old senator mentioned in a written assertion.
He added, “I am going to proceed to have interaction with my workers and colleagues on vital Senate enterprise.”
McConnell has not been seen or heard in public since he was hospitalized in mid-June after struggling the autumn at his house in Washington after which contracting pneumonia.
His workers has largely saved mum in regards to the senior senator’s situation, regardless of mounting scrutiny from the media and a few elected officers.
McConnell’s aides have periodically launched written statements from the senator offering temporary updates on his restoration progress.
A few of these press releases have included pictures of a seated, smiling McConnell alongside his spouse, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. In one in all them, McConnell is holding a newspaper, probably to supply proof the picture was not taken earlier.
However no video or audio of McConnell has been launched thus far, and the scant, largely text-based assurances of his enchancment have solely fueled extra hypothesis.
Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear lately urged McConnell to resign if he can’t show his health for workplace.
Thursday’s press launch didn’t embody a photograph.
McConnell mentioned in a July 12 assertion that he was moved to a rehab heart, the place he has apparently remained for greater than three weeks.
He additionally revealed that, in keeping with his docs, he “briefly” misplaced consciousness within the fall. However he broke no bones and didn’t undergo a coronary heart assault, concussion or stroke, and he has no tumors or hemorrhages, McConnell’s assertion mentioned.
On July 27, the congressional Workplace of the Attending Doctor mentioned docs had been assembly with McConnell on the facility every single day, “discussing all points of his rehabilitation care.”
McConnell, the third-oldest member of the Senate behind Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has skilled quite a few well being scares lately, together with a number of falls and verbal freeze-ups. He’s not in search of reelection.
McConnell’s restoration could possibly be essential to confirming Trump’s decide for lawyer normal, Todd Blanche, this week.
Republicans maintain a slim 53-47 majority within the Senate, which has been winnowed to 52 throughout McConnell’s prolonged absence — that means Blanche can solely afford two Republican defections to be confirmed.
If McConnell returns to the Senate, it might give the GOP a three-vote cushion to get the present performing lawyer normal throughout the end line.
