The Latest Breaking News from Mitch McConnell

Republican leader’s support virtually guarantees bill’s passage

"If the legislation ends up reflecting what the framework indicated, I'll be supportive."

How the bill is ultimately written will be crucial.

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators on Sunday announced it had reached a framework for enacting modest gun restrictions, such as closing loopholes and increasing background checks for gun purchases by people between 18 and 21, in response to a recent spate of mass shootings that included a massacre…

A deal reached by 10 Democratic and GOP senators should have enough support to clear a filibuster, but doesn’t go as far as the House did.

"Donald Trump is the only man in American politics who could get conned by Mitch McConnell twice in an Alabama Senate race," Brooks said.

He’s younger, prettier and speaks in complete, comprehensible sentences. And he speaks directly to former President Donald Trump’s rock-solid base — which is showing a few cracks.

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott on Thursday released a revised version of his plan to “Rescue America,” backing down from his proposal that would require all Americans to pay “some income tax,” an ambiguous statement that suggested imposing new taxes on millions of people currently making too little money or seniors…

WASHINGTON — It didn’t happen after 13 people were killed at Columbine in 1999, when 26 were gunned down in Newtown in 2012 or when 17 people were murdered at Parkland in 2018.