Tag: Mitch McConnell

Where Things Stand: McConnell Is Desperate To Maintain His Grip

By | May 14, 2020 12:42 p.m.

It’s not the most important news of the day, but I am endlessly fascinated by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) seemingly endless campaign to prod the secretary of state into running for an open senate seat in Kansas.

UNITED STATES - MARCH 21: Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., right, and ranking member Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., conduct a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Hart Building on Russian Interference in the 2016 election on March 21, 2018. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson, and former Secretary Jeh Johnson, also testified. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Burr Stepping Down As Intel Chair During Investigation Into Stock Dump

By | May 14, 2020 12:14 p.m.

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 11: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) listens during a news briefing after the weekly Senate Republican Policy Luncheon July 11, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. Sen. McConnell announced that Senate will delay its recess to the third week of August. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

McConnell Attacks Obama For Criticizing Trump Admin: ‘Should Have Kept His Mouth Shut’

By | May 12, 2020 8:26 a.m.

McCarthy Clashes With McConnell On Accepting Quick COVID Tests From Trump

By | May 4, 2020 3:08 p.m.

Pelosi And McConnell Turn Down Trump Admin’s Offer To Send Special COVID Tests To Congress

By | May 2, 2020 5:00 p.m.

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 27: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to the media and members of the National Guard at the Javits Convention Center which is being turned into a hospital to help fight coronavirus cases on March 27, 2020 in New York City. across the country schools, businesses and places of work have either been shut down or are restricting hours of operation as health officials try to slow the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

Cuomo Swings At McConnell Again: ‘Just Give Me My Money Back, Senator’

By | April 24, 2020 3:30 p.m.

Cuomo Reminds McConnell That KY Takes More Money Than NY: ‘Who’s Getting Bailed Out Here?’

By | April 23, 2020 1:55 p.m.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) talk before the start of a memorial service for late Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings in National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on Thursday, October 24, 2019. Cummings died at the age of 68 on October 17 due to complications concerning long-standing health challenges. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

Pelosi Fires Back At ‘Insecure’ McConnell After He Derides ‘Blue State Bailouts’

By | April 23, 2020 11:41 a.m.

Where Things Stand: Trump Didn’t Take McConnell’s Political Out

By | April 1, 2020 11:08 a.m.

The Senate majority leader tried to give him an out.

It’s hardly surprising that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would contort himself into a pretzel to offer President Trump some sort of excuse — especially one dripping in Trump’s favorite flavor of partisanship — for the administration’s botched handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. But the befuddling bit is Trump didn’t bite.