Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was rushed to a hospital Sunday morning, his office confirmed, and remains hospitalized Monday. His office has given no details about his condition or the reason for the hospitalization.
“Senator McConnell was admitted to the hospital this morning,” spokesman David Popp said in a statement. “He is receiving excellent care.”
No hospital was named. No diagnosis was shared. No prognosis was offered.
McConnell, 84, is in the final months of a Senate career stretching more than four decades. He announced in 2024 that he was stepping down from his long-held position as Senate Republican leader, and in 2025 he announced he would not seek another term, meaning his service will conclude at the end of this year. He is the tenth longest-serving senator in American history.
Sunday’s hospitalization is his second of 2026. On February 2, McConnell checked himself into a local hospital after experiencing flu-like symptoms — a stay that stretched eight days before he was discharged on February 10. “He is feeling better and will be working from home this week on the advice of doctors,” his spokesman said at the time.
McConnell’s health has been a source of ongoing concern for several years. In 2023, he froze and was unable to speak for approximately 30 seconds during his weekly Senate leadership press conference..
He has suffered at least five falls since 2019. The first, at his Kentucky home in August 2019, fractured his shoulder. In March 2023, a fall at a Washington hotel resulted in a concussion that kept him away from the Senate for nearly six weeks. He fell multiple times on Capitol Hill after that, including in October 2025 when he fell suddenly while being questioned by a leftist activist about immigration enforcement.
McConnell stepped down from the Senate Republican Conference leadership in February 2024. “I turned 82 last week,” he said at the time. “The end of my contributions are closer than I’d prefer.”
In recent months, McConnell has regularly moved about the Capitol in a wheelchair, often requiring assistance from staff.
McConnell was a childhood polio survivor, and the disease left him with a partially paralyzed leg and an unsteady gait that has worsened with age.