Top GOP leaders say McConnell is recovering after three weeks in hospital
Top Republicans say Mitch McConnell is improving after three weeks in hospital, but his diagnosis, recovery timeline and political future remain undisclosed.
Top Senate Republicans have had lengthy phone conversations with Mitch McConnell as his hospitalization stretches into a third week, while his office has not disclosed the reason for the 84-year-old senator’s stay. McConnell was admitted on June 14, and his office says he is continuing to recover and improving while working with staff on Kentucky and Senate matters.
On Monday, Majority Leader John Thune had spoken with McConnell and called him “dialed in.” “He sounded good. He wants to be back,” Thune said, and Republican Whip John Barrasso also spoke with McConnell and said he found him engaged and eager to return to the Hill.
Public EMS dispatch audio from June 14 referred to an unconscious person at McConnell’s address and mentioned “cardiac arrest” and “CPR in progress.”
McConnell has served in the Senate for more than 40 years and led Senate Republicans from 2007 to 2025. He is retiring at the end of his current term, and Kentucky is preparing for an election to fill his seat. McConnell is 84 and has spent much of the past three years dealing with repeated health scares, including more than a week in the hospital in February for flu-like symptoms, a 2023 hospitalization after a concussion from a fall, two public freezing episodes later that year, additional falls in 2024 and stretches in a wheelchair that his office called precautionary.
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