As tensions with Iran flare, Mitch McConnell is warning that the Trump administration is increasingly led by "pretty rabid isolationists," including J.D. Vance, and says now is the time to speak up about the risks of retreating from America's traditional defense posture.
Following the recent U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites, strikes that quickly forced Tehran into a ceasefire, McConnell saw an opening to reassert his long-held belief in interventionist foreign policy. Though no longer Senate leader, the 83-year-old Kentucky senator now chairs the powerful Appropriations subcommittee on defense and is using his platform to shape the party's direction on national security.
