Nearly three weeks after a June 14 emergency, Mitch McConnell’s office said Thursday that the 84-year-old senator is still hospitalized and recovering.
An EMS call from McConnell’s Washington home showed first responders were dispatched for “CPR in progress” and “cardiac arrest” after he was found unconscious.
The statement came only after repeated press questions and a Daily Beast report spotlighted his aides’ refusal to disclose his whereabouts; his office had last updated the public on June 22.
McConnell has not voted since June 11, though his team said he is improving and working with staff while the Senate is out of session.
The episode renews scrutiny of the retiring Kentucky senator’s health after multiple recent falls and hospital stays, and it lands amid Kentucky’s revised rules for filling a Senate vacancy.