Mitch Mcconnell
Republicans Have Won The House, But The Democrats Will Keep Control Of The Senate
“Things do happen,” one political science professor told BuzzFeed News, “but the intensity of partisanship makes it much, much harder to legislate in divided government.”
Stephanie K. Baer
Republicans Have Focused On The Leak Rather Than Talking About Abortion
“Liberals want to rip the blindfolds off of lady justice,” McConnell said. “The want to override impartiality with intimidation. They want to elevate mob rule over the rule of law.”
Kadia Goba
Mitch McConnell And 44 Republican Senators Voted To Block Trump’s Impeachment Trial
Trump’s impeachment trial will go ahead, but Republicans overwhelmingly signaled they will vote to acquit him.
Paul McLeod
Mitch McConnell No Longer Controls The Senate After Georgia's Democratic Senators Were Sworn In
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock officially give Democrats tiebreaking power in the Senate. Sen. Alex Padilla was also sworn in to Vice President Kamala Harris’s seat.
Addy Baird
Trump Has Been Impeached. Now Mitch McConnell Will Have To Pick A Side.
Whether or not Donald Trump will be banned from running for office ever again essentially sits with one person: Mitch McConnell. “If he publicly says he will impeach, then the dam breaks.”
Paul McLeod
Mitch McConnell Will Lose Control Of The Senate As Democrats Have Swept The Georgia Runoffs
Democrats will control both chambers of Congress plus the White House, giving President-elect Joe Biden the chance to enact his agenda.
Paul McLeod
Businesses Will No Longer Have To Provide Paid Leave For Workers With COVID After Mitch McConnell Objected
Congress did not extend the paid leave mandate in its $900 billion COVID aid bill. Democrats hope to try again next year.
Paul McLeod
Mitch McConnell Is Trying To Block Mandatory Paid Sick Leave For Workers Who Get COVID
Congress already granted big businesses an exemption from having to offer paid sick leave to workers. Now the program could expire altogether at the end of the year.
Paul McLeod
Mitch McConnell Is Backing Trump’s Right To Baselessly Contest The Election
The Republican establishment is refusing to call on President Donald Trump to accept the results of the 2020 election.
Paul McLeod
Mitch McConnell Laughed When He Was Called Out For The Senate's Inaction On COVID-19 Relief
"There's nothing funny about 214,000 Americans dying."
Tasneem Nashrulla
Mitch McConnell Said The Senate Will Vote On Trump’s Replacement For Ruth Bader Ginsburg
McConnell vowed to vote on Trump’s pick to replace Ginsburg, despite blocking a vote on Obama’s nominee before the 2016 election.
Paul McLeod
An Interracial, Intergenerational Battle Is Brewing In The Race To Replace Mitch McConnell
A newcomer’s critique of Amy McGrath is stirring tension in the race to oust Trump’s most powerful ally in Washington.
Darren Sands
Facebook Is Not Removing An Ad Falsely Claiming Mitch McConnell Endorses Impeaching Trump
According to Facebook’s ad library, the ad has received over 1,000 impressions and was boosted for a few hundred dollars.
Ryan Broderick
Julianne Moore Made A Powerful Plea To Mitch McConnell About Gun Control
“Gun violence is a public health crisis, and we all need to do everything to stop people from dying,” Moore told BuzzFeed News.
Krystie Lee Yandoli
Mitch McConnell Said Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s Fate Is Up To Trump After The Jeffrey Epstein Revelations
Democrats are calling for Acosta to step down behind his “sweetheart” deal in the Jeffrey Epstein case more than a decade ago.
Kadia Goba
Mitch McConnell Says He Doesn’t Support Reparations: “We’ve Elected An African American President”
McConnell said he doesn't support reparations because "none of us currently living are responsible." He also noted passage of the Civil Rights Act.
Kadia Goba
Mitch McConnell Is Trying To Stop Teens From Vaping
McConnell, the Senate majority leader, introduced a new bill would help address the “epidemic” of vaping among school-age children.
Paul McLeod
Mitch McConnell Just Made It A Whole Lot Easier For Trump To Confirm A Bunch Of Nominees
Republicans on Wednesday forced through a rules change that slashes the amount of time it will take to confirm many of Trump's nominees to the federal courts and executive branch agencies.
Zoe Tillman
Mitch McConnell Just Blocked A Bipartisan Bill To Protect Robert Mueller
Sen. Jeff Flake vowed not to vote for any more of President Trump's judicial nominees until the Senate votes to protect Mueller, putting pressure on McConnell to change his mind.
Paul McLeod
Angry Protesters Confronted Mitch McConnell At A Restaurant And Threw Out His Leftovers
One of the demonstrators took the Senate majority leader's to-go box and tossed it out on the sidewalk, a witness said.
Brianna Sacks
Mitch McConnell Says The Senate Is Going To Vote On Brett Kavanaugh This Week
An additional FBI investigation into accusations against the Supreme Court nominee is supposed to be completed Friday.
Paul McLeod
Mitch McConnell Told Supporters Senate Republicans Will "Plow Right Through" To Confirm Kavanaugh
The nomination process is far from over, but McConnell promised that Brett Kavanaugh will be on the Supreme Court soon.
Paul McLeod
Mitch McConnell Is Canceling Summer Vacation To Screw With Democrats
Summer is CANCELED.
Sarah Mimms
Here Are Just Some Pictures Of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin And Mitch McConnell Holding Gold
The pictures come from a Freedom of Information Act request connected to last year's trip to Fort Knox to watch the solar eclipse.
Tarini Parti
Republican To Mitch McConnell: We Need To Vote To Overhaul Sexual Harassment Policies In Congress ASAP
"The House of Representatives has already passed these reforms, and it is now time for the Senate to do the same," Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote in a letter to McConnell released Monday.
Lissandra Villa
Trump And Bannon Are Publicly Feuding And Mitch McConnell Is Just Here For The Drama
*Smiles.*
Julia Reinstein
Live Updates: Mitch McConnell, After A Long Silence And Without Naming Trump, Denounces Neo-Nazis
Three people died and dozens more were injured in connection with a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville Saturday. Demonstrations took place across the country on Sunday in response to the events, while many elected officials denounced the violence.
BuzzFeed News
Mitch McConnell Is Not Like Trump’s Other Twitter Targets
The Senate majority leader has proven to be a poor bogeyman, and his public antagonists have rarely won out.
Alexis Levinson
Mitch McConnell Just Wants To Repeal Obamacare Now That Replacing It Won't Happen Anytime Soon
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate would now vote on a bill to fully repeal Obamacare, but delay repeal by two years.
Paul McLeod
Mitch McConnell Was Unhappy With Pro-Trump Group's Attacks On Nevada Republican
Sources tell BuzzFeed News that the Senate majority leader wasn't told ahead of time that America First Policies would go after Sen. Dean Heller — and that McConnell allies subsequently made that clear to the group.
Henry J. Gomez
