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The Latest Breaking News from Mitch McConnell

McConnell rejects NRSC chair Rick Scott's tax pitch

McConnell rejected Scott's tax pitch in an unusual airing of private tensions between the two senior Republicans.

Axios

Supreme Court nominee heads to Senate for confirmation process - Roll Call

Ketanji Brown Jackson begins meeting with senators on Wednesday, part of her confirmation process to the Supreme Court.

Roll Call

"Free, white and over 21" lives on today

The "free, White, and over 21" mentality was well represented among those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6

Salon

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EXPLAINER: What's ahead for Biden's Supreme Court nominee

The White House says President Joe Biden will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, launching what Democrats hope will be a quick, bipartisan confirmation process

The Independent UK

White House confirms plans for direct sanctions on Putin and Lavrov – as it happened

Psaki confirms sanctions on Russian president and foreign minister – follow all the latest news

The Guardian - US

‘Putin chose this war,’ Biden says as he announces new sanctions – US politics as it happened

President condemns Putin’s ‘brutal assault on the people of Ukraine’ – follow all the latest US politics news

The Guardian - US

McConnell says Biden’s plan to pick a Black woman for the Supreme Court ‘not inappropriate’

Senate minority leader promises ‘the kind of process I think you can be proud of’

The Independent UK

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Biden says ‘this is the beginning of a Russian invasion’ as he announces sanctions – as it happened

President announces he will enact ‘first tranche’ of sanctions in response to Putin’s recognition of two self-proclaimed republics

The Guardian - US

Ukraine supplemental money bill could be in the offing - Roll Call

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a longtime Russia hawk, and others are calling on Congress to approve an Ukraine aid package as soon as next week.

Roll Call

The Republican party is abandoning democracy. There can be no ‘politics as usual’

Republicans could not be clearer about their cynicism, yet some establishment Democrats act as if politics as usual is still an option

The Guardian - US

Dems, GOP set inflation, COVID mandates as election themes

Senate Democrats and Republicans each want to flash election-year signals that they’re helping families struggling with rising costs and the two-year-old pandemic

The Independent UK

Renewed opposition to Trump stirs among establishment Republicans

There are different constellations in the Never Trump firmament and it’s unclear if they can unite

The Guardian - US

Donald Trump is ignoring Lindsey Graham’s warnings about 2020 election obsession - Roll Call

Donald Trump could be attacking President Biden on a number of kitchen-sink issues. Instead, he's obsessed with his 2020 election loss.

Roll Call

Texas sues Biden administration to stop mask mandates on planes – as it happened

State attorney general challenges CDC mask rules on transport – follow all the day’s politics news

The Guardian - US

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McClatchy Washington Bureau

McConnell: Abrupt Afghanistan withdrawal led to Russian march on Ukraine

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell on Tuesday linked the Biden administration’s highly controversial pullout from Afghanistan six months ago to Russia’s current menacing troop build-up around Ukraine.

Salon

"Trump fatigue": Real or hype?

Fractures in the GOP foundation are forming — but Trump remains

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Follow Mitch’s lead: McConnell shows some backbone, a rarity in the Republican Party

Properly translating the Republican National Committee’s Orwellian statement that the Jan. 6 Capitol marauders and rioters were “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dropped the Newspeak and said in plain English: “We all were here. We saw what happened. It was a violent insurrection…

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Rand Paul: ‘We can be respectful and adults’ on Biden’s Supreme Court nominee

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden hasn’t yet settled on a nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

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The Guardian - US

Jimmy Kimmel: ‘We’re applauding Republicans willing to admit that what happened, happened’

Late-night hosts discuss Mitch McConnell’s rebuke of the RNC and the racist foundations of America’s highway system

The Independent UK

Republican rift exposes choice: With Trump or against him

A rift over the Republican National Committee's symbolic vote to censure former President Donald Trump’s House GOP critics has exposed the competing forces fighting to control the party

Tribune News Service

Republicans: Biden forcing ‘woke’ agenda in infrastructure law

WASHINGTON — Republicans are ramping up complaints that the Biden administration is injecting its agenda into its implementation of the bipartisan infrastructure law despite agreements reached by Republicans and Democrats to pass it last year.

Salon

GOP chaos: Senate chances in danger?

Larry Hogan is the third governor to reject Mitch McConnell's pleas, while Trump backs slew of MAGA diehards

Roll Call

Republicans: Biden forcing 'woke' agenda in infrastructure law - Roll Call

Republicans are ramping up complaints that the White House is injecting its agenda into implementing the bipartisan infrastructure law.

Salon

GOP leaders: Trapped by Trump

McConnell and McCarthy, though spineless and soulless, would love to move on. But a Certain Someone won't let them

The Conversation

The Jan. 6 Capitol attacks offer a reminder – distrust in government has long been part of Republicans' playbook

The Republican National Committee has legitimized the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attacks. The RNC declared on Feb. 4, 2022, that the insurrection and preceding events were “legitimate political discourse” — an assertion that Sen. Mitch McConnell soon after countered, saying that it was a “violent insurrection.”

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