Mitch McConnell falls down in the Senate stairs: What we know

The Republican Senator Mitch McConnell fell down the stairs in the Senate on Wednesday, reported several media.

“Senator McConnell is doing well,” McConnell’s spokesman told Newsweek in an explanation. “The persistent effects of polio in the left leg will not disturb his regular work plan.”

The context

Autumn on Wednesday is the last in a number of health -related incidents that McConnell, 82, has had in recent years.

He announced last February that he would resign as the majority leader of the Senate.

What to know?

Fox News’ Chad -Pergram reported that Kentucky’s senator was helped to help the Republican Senators Steve Daines from Montana and Markwayne Mulllin from Oklahoma.

Pergram reported that McConnell had the fall after the vote to confirm Scott Turner as a secretary for housing and urban development.

John Breschan from Huffpost by Igor Bobic and Punchbowl News reported that McConnell fell again after being helped on his feet. Bobic reported that the Senator of Kentucky could get up alone after the second autumn and that his colleagues were “shot around” at the lunch of the Senate.

McConnell was seen in a wheelchair after the fall.

The incident on Wednesday takes place less than two months after McConnell fell after lunch in the Senate, which led to a brickwood wrist and a cut on the face.

In March 2023, McConnell, the third oldest US senator, fell in a hotel in Washington, DC, and was admitted to the hospital after a concussion and a broken rib. The Kentucky legislator took a six -week absence from the Senate after the fall.

McConnell fell again four months later when he was canceled by the National Airport by Ronald Reagan Washington. He was not seriously injured.

The former Republican leader also had two episodes in 2023, in which he seemed to freeze in front of television cameras. After one of the incidents, he told reporters that he was “in order” and the Capitol Hill doctor put him to work.

McConnell had polio when he was 2 years old and his upper left leg was paralyzed as a result of the disease.

The Kentucky Senator office has not yet published an explanation of his fall on Wednesday, but it has published a press release about his voice to confirm Turner as Hud Secretary and to name it as “a further positive addition to the president’s cabinet” .

What happens next

McConnell said last year that he was planning to serve the rest of his congress period, which ends in January 2027.

Update 2/5/25 at 1:45 p.m. ET: This story has been updated with additional information.

Update 2/5/25 at 2:30 p.m. ET: This story has been updated with additional information.