What To Know
- Senator Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized since June 14 following a fall.
- After calls for more transparency, McConnell and his staff released a detailed health update.
- McConnell is recovering in a rehabilitation center an remains engaged in political business.
Mitch McConnell‘s staff just released a health update in a new statement amid the Republican Senator’s six-week hospital stay.
On Saturday, July 25, David Popp, a spokesperson for McConnell, shared a statement with The Washington Post.
“The Senator continues to meet with staff regarding Senate and Kentucky business, including discussions on defense appropriations, foreign policy, the farm bill, constituent services and constituent federal grant requests,” Popp explained. “As the Senator continues to improve in rehab, we will be sure to keep you updated.”
On June 14, the Senator from Kentucky, 84, was hospitalized. McConnell’s team finally broke its silence one month later with a lengthy statement and a photo of the Senator in a hospital bed.
“Last month, I took a fall which landed me in the hospital,” McConnell noted. The politician explained that he suffered no broken bones and did not suffer a stroke, heart attack, concussion, or hemorrhage. However, he was “briefly unconscious,” taken to a hospital, and developed a “mild case of pneumonia” during his stay.
Statement From Senator Mitch McConnell
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the following note to constituents regarding his hospitalization and recovery:
“To my fellow Kentuckians –
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“I can assure you that I’ve been a good patient. At my age, I tend to do what my doctors tell me to do. I’ve submitted to every test they can think of to help figure out what caused this incident,” McConnell detailed. “And I’m continuing to do everything they ask to speed my recovery. In fact, with signs of continued progress, I’ve been able to move from hospital care to a rehabilitation center where I’ll keep regaining my strength.”
To conclude his statement, McConnell promised, “I’ll keep working hard to get back on the Senate floor as soon as possible. And I’ll keep you posted on the progress of my recovery. Until then, I’m so grateful for your prayers and well wishes.”
McConnell’s health update came after political commentator and strategist Scott Jennings urged him to “routinely update his constituents on how he’s doing” on CNN’s The Arena with Kasie Hunt.
“Truthfully, I think a little transparency on the front end here would have saved him a whole lot of grief,” Jennings said. “But that didn’t happen, and they are where they are now.”