US \u2060Senator Mitch McConnell was admitted to hospital on Sunday, his spokesman said, but there was no immediate information about why he was there or his prognosis.<\/p>\n
McConnell, 84, was the longest-serving Senate leader in history before stepping aside from that role while finishing his final term, which ends in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cSenator McConnell was admitted to the hospital this morning. He is receiving excellent care,\u201d spokesman David Popp said in a statement without elaboration. It was not immediately clear whether the Kentucky lawmaker was in Washington, his home state or elsewhere.<\/p>\n
McConnell was hospitalised earlier this year for eight days in February for \u201cflu-like symptoms\u201d.<\/p>\n
The lawmaker\u2019s health has been a subject of scrutiny for years.<\/p>\n
He fell and sprained his wrist while walking out of a Republican lunch in December 2024. He was hospitalised with a concussion in March 2023 and missed several weeks of work after falling in a Washington hotel. After he returned, he twice froze during news conferences that summer, staring vacantly ahead before colleagues and staff came to his aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US \u2060Senator Mitch McConnell was admitted to hospital on Sunday, his spokesman said, but there was no immediate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,37435,151207,304277,1493,569,9284,3,52314,25244,720,304276,19256,21,19,22,20,25,24,2002],"class_list":["post-704170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-capitol","tag-concussion","tag-david-popp","tag-hospital","tag-kentucky","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-news","tag-polio","tag-republican","tag-senate","tag-senate-appropriations-subcommittee-on-defence","tag-senator","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}