Tag: Mitch McConnell

McConnell indicated that a national abortion ban could be 'possible.'

GOP’s top leader open to minimum wage increase

Susan Ferrechio · March 2, 2021 9:05 pm

Peter Navarro: Trump ‘will be on the ballot in 2024’

Mica Soellner · February 28, 2021 6:02 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), left, and Vice President Joe Biden, walk through Statuary Hall on their way to a joint session of Congress to count the votes in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. It's official: Congress has tallied the Electoral College votes and Donald Trump has been elected president.

National Security

McConnell backs Biden ordering airstrikes in Syria

Zach Halaschak · February 27, 2021 1:09 am

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, talks with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., right, and her mother Blanca Ocasio-Cortez, center, during a ceremonial swearing-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. Voters wish Democrats in the House would be more like Pelosi than the rabble-rouser.

Washington Secrets

McConnell least liked, not much better for AOC, Pelosi, Schumer

Paul Bedard · February 26, 2021 4:33 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tells reporters he intends to cancel the traditional August recess and keep the Senate in session to deal with backlogged tasks, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 5, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Republican leaders can’t rid the party of Trumpism — only voters can

Philip Klein · February 26, 2021 3:21 pm

McConnell would ‘absolutely’ support Trump if he was the 2024 GOP nominee

Mica Soellner · February 26, 2021 2:00 am

Indiaâs Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Biden,Â June 2023.

Top Democrats call for partisan balance on Jan. 6 commission as disagreements over scope persist

Carly Roman · February 26, 2021 1:43 am

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters following escalation of tensions this week between the U.S. and Iran, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House will vote Thursday on a measure limiting President Donald Trump's ability to take military action against Iran as Democratic criticism of the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general intensified.

Pelosi: Riot commission must focus on rise in white supremacy

Susan Ferrechio · February 25, 2021 5:30 pm

Police begin clearing angry protesters from the Capitol building in Washington by using tear gas on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Demonstrators responded by taunting and yelling at law enforcement before retreating from the toxic gas and the officers with riot shields.

McConnell: Pelosi riot commission ‘partisan by design’

Susan Ferrechio · February 24, 2021 7:45 pm

GOP angst as Trump and McConnell wage civil war

W. James Antle III · February 19, 2021 11:00 am

Magazine - Columnists

Mitch takes one for the team

Fred Barnes · February 19, 2021 4:00 am

These states could see Trump- vs. McConnell-backed Senate Republican primary battles

Emily Brooks · February 18, 2021 9:44 pm