Senator Mitch McConnell, the lone Republican dissenter, voted against Robert F Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation as health secretary citing Kennedy's controversial vaccine views. "Mr Kennedy failed to ...

WASHINGTON—In 2017, when President Trump was fresh in his first term, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked by a student on a class trip what he thought of the new commander in ...

WASHINGTON — As the longest-serving Senate leader in history, Republican Mitch McConnell had a reputation for keeping his rank-and-file members in line and frustrating Democrats by relentlessly ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell was a generational force for the Republican Party — using procedural tactics and political will to stymie much of former President Barack Obama’s agenda, hand President ...

Mitch McConnell has realized the consequences of his past Senate leadership, voting against some of Trump’s most unqualified cabinet choices. McConnell is responsible for the supermajority of ...

This week, Mitch McConnell voted against two more of President Trump's highly qualified cabinet secretaries. McConnell was the only Republican in the Senate to vote against both Tulsi Gabbard and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Senator Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, voted against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his confirmation for Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Thursday morning. The ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the chamber as Congress returns for the lame-duck session at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 12, 2024. Mitch McConnell is free. Not even ...

WASHINGTON — No longer in charge, Sen. Mitch McConnell has been speaking his mind, the long-serving GOP leader rejecting President Trump’s more high-profile Cabinet nominees — alone at times ...