The Latest Breaking News from Mitch McConnell

NEWS ANALYSIS: Nearly everything Schumer warned about in March has come to fruition, Eric Garcia writes. So what changed?

Joel Willett, a Democratic candidate, says he has ‘seen firsthand’ how Trump administration is weaponizing the government

Susan Monarez offers to repeat under oath statements she made about why she was ousted from the embattled Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Key US politics stories from 4 September 2025

Former Senate leader likens administration’s fixation with tariffs to isolationist policies of the US in the 1930s

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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a recent interview that today's economic backdrop shares "certain similarities" with the 1930s, pointing to President Herbert Hoover's 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act and the era's isolationist "America First" politics.

‘What we need to do is avoid the headline at the end of the war, ‘Russia wins, America loses.’ It has huge worldwide implications,’ McConnell said of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Supreme court justice says overturning Roe v Wade respected voters’ will, though polls show otherwise

ANALYSIS: ‘He did not protect or defend the Constitution and he violated his oath of office,’ Tara Setmayer told Scott Jennings. ‘You know, who said that? You did after January 6th.’ Justin Baragona details how the CNN commentator is having his old comments used against him