Sen. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall Tuesday at a Senate lunch and lower his face however apparently was not critically damage.
The GOP Minority Chief was noticed strolling again to his workplace with out help after the incident that quantities to the most recent well being scare for the 82-year-old lawmaker.
McConnell was additionally escorted again to his workplace by fellow GOP chief Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyoming), who hosted the lunch assembly. A medical staff with a wheelchair later arrived at McConnell’s workplace.
Barrasso mentioned McConnell had fallen after the lunch, shortly earlier than a scheduled weekly press convention.
Sen. John Thune (R-South Dakota), who will take over as GOP chief in January, advised reporters that McConnell was not critically damage.
“He’s fine, he’s in his office,” Thune mentioned
McConnell, who survived polio as a toddler, has suffered a sequence of falls and different well being scares lately.
McConnell suffered a concussion and fractured rib in a single 2023 fall at a Washington D.C. resort, requiring rehabilitation that pressured him to overlook six weeks on Capitol Hill.
He froze for no less than 20 seconds whereas talking to reporters on the Capitol in July 2023 and needed to be ushered apart.
A sometime-critic of President-elect Trump, McConnell introduced he wouldn’t search one other two-year time period as GOP chief within the new Congress, though he mentioned he plans to remain in workplace via the top of his time period expiring in 2026.
Simply Monday, he delivered what some interpreted as a swipe at Trump’s incoming administration when he urged fellow lawmakers to keep up a muscular international coverage and to withstand “those who are content to manage our decline.”
