{"id":704364,"date":"2026-06-14T22:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704364\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T22:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:58:11","slug":"former-republican-senate-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704364\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hospitalized : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Sen. Mitch McConnell has been using a wheelchair in the U.S. Capitol in recent months.<\/p>\n

Heather Diehl\/Getty Images North America<\/p>\n

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Heather Diehl\/Getty Images North America<\/p>\n

Former Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell was admitted to a hospital on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The 84-year old Kentucky senator’s condition is currently unknown but he has suffered regular health challenges in recent years.<\/p>\n

McConnell spokesman David Popp said McConnell “is receiving excellent care” in an e-mailed statement but did not specify the reason for the hospitalization.<\/p>\n

McConnell regularly moves about the Capitol in a wheelchair, often with the assistance of staff.<\/p>\n

In 2023, McConnell froze and appeared unable to speak for nearly 30 seconds during his weekly press conference as leader.<\/p>\n

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He also suffered a series of falls, including one that resulted in a concussion and nearly six-week absence from the Senate. McConnell has always appeared to have a somewhat unsteady gate \u2014 a childhood bout of polio left him with a partially paralyzed leg.<\/p>\n

He announced in 2024 he’d step down from leadership. And in 2025 that he would not seek another six-year term in office.<\/p>\n

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After more than four decades, McConnell’s time in the Senate is set to conclude at the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sen. Mitch McConnell has been using a wheelchair in the U.S. Capitol in recent months. Heather Diehl\/Getty Images…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-704364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704364","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=704364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}