Washington — Sen. Mitch McConnell, the outgoing Republican chief within the Senate, suffered a fall on Capitol Hill after a lunch with colleagues and suffered minor accidents, his workplace mentioned Tuesday.
“Chief McConnell tripped following lunch. He sustained a minor lower to the face and sprained his wrist. He has been cleared to renew his schedule,” a McConnell spokesman mentioned.
The 82-year-old Kentucky Republican is about to step apart from his management function subsequent month when the brand new Congress convenes, clearing the way in which for Sen. John Thune of South Dakota to take the reins because the GOP assumes the bulk.
McConnell didn’t be a part of Senate Republican management for his or her weekly press convention on Tuesday. Thune mentioned McConnell was “fantastic” and in his workplace, and referred additional inquiries to McConnell’s employees. Medical personnel have been seen leaving McConnell’s workplace, and a photographer mentioned he noticed a lower on the senator’s face.
This is not the primary well being scare that McConnell, a childhood polio survivor, has had in public.
McConnell was hospitalized in March 2023 after a fall that left him with a concussion. McConnell was attending a personal dinner when he tripped, and he was within the hospital for a number of days earlier than finishing in-patient rehab.
Later in 2023, McConnell appeared to freeze in two separate cases that stirred issues about his total well being. However McConnell and his group dismissed the incidents as remoted, and he advised “Face the Nation” in October 2023 that he was “utterly recovered.”
