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News in-depthUS politics & policy
Senate Democrats cross aisle to strike down Washington DC crime bill
...Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, accused Democrats on Tuesday of “panicking and revers[ing] themselves”....
March 9, 2023
US politics & policy
Fed official warns of ‘extreme’ market reaction unless debt ceiling raised
...“There is no chance Republicans will help lift Democrats’ credit limit so they can immediately steamroller through a socialist binge that will hurt families and help China,” McConnell said....
September 27, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Bernard Schwartz
Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan rises to China challenge but faces its own
...Biden, however, leveraged the support of key Republicans, including Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, to prevail in a polarised system....
January 6, 2022
FT Swamp Notes
Biden’s bipartisanship at the crossroads Premium content
...As Mitch McConnell reminded Democrats again and again during his five years as Senate majority leader: holding a congressional majority is the only currency that really matters in Washington....
February 5, 2021
US Capitol attack
Angry mobs of Trump supporters interrupt transfer of power
...Ms Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader, and other congressional leaders were taken to a secure location earlier on Wednesday....
January 7, 2021
FT Swamp Notes
The great wall between Canada and America
...On Monday my former colleague Chrystia Freeland, deputy prime minister of Canada, unveiled C$100bn (about $78bn) of new fiscal ammunition to help the country’s post-pandemic recovery....
December 4, 2020
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
Edward Luce
Biden embraces his inner radical to confront winter of peril
...As a life-long moderate Democrat, Mr Biden’s philosophy is assumed to be conservative with a small “c”, added to progressive with a small “p”. But politics is all about circumstance....
January 20, 2021
US Capitol attack
Police officer dies of injuries sustained defending US Capitol
...“Big protest in D.C. on January 6,” Donald Trump wrote on Twitter on December 19, one of several posts advertising the event. “Be there, will be wild!”...
January 8, 2021
Coronavirus economic impact
Chefs warn new Covid rules could kill US restaurants
...But Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, has not yet put it to a vote....
November 27, 2020
US politics & policy
House nears vote to approve statehood for Washington, DC
...While Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, has said he will not take up the bill, and President Donald Trump has insisted DC will “never” be a state, Ms Holmes Norton — with an eye towards November...
June 25, 2020
Henry Mance
Who wants to be a two-term (millionaire) US president?
...Because I’ve tested more things than anybody — the constitution, democratic norms, Mitch McConnell’s self-respect, evangelical voters’ moral consistency . . ....
April 17, 2020
Lunch with the FT
Chrystia Freeland: ‘We liberals have had a rude awakening’
...Bistro Praha 10117 101 St, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Prague egg salad C$14.95 House special C$16.95 Glass of house white C$9.50 Cappuccino x 2 C$9.90 Green tea C$3.95 Total (inc tip) C$70.19 (£41)...
January 24, 2020
US politics & policy
US Senate majority leader cancels most of August recess
...Mitch McConnell, the US Senate majority leader, has called off much of the Senate’s traditional August break, claiming that Democrats’ “historic obstruction” compelled him to keep senators in Washington...
June 5, 2018
US politics & policy
Republicans fear Roy Moore stands in way of agenda
...Mr McConnell indicated this week that were Mr Moore to win, Republican senators would immediately begin the process of expelling him from the Senate....
November 15, 2017
US healthcare reform
Obamacare repeal effort clears early hurdle in US Senate vote
...“Today’s vote to begin debate is the first step, and we should take it,” Mr McConnell said on the Senate floor. Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, called the Republican strategy a “ruse”....
July 25, 2017
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
US politics & policy
Trump’s approval rating falls to 36% six months into presidency
...Mr McConnell can only afford to lose two Republican votes in the Senate where his party has only a thin 52-48 majority....
July 16, 2017
US politics & policy
Failure to raise debt limit may put US rating under review: Fitch
...Steven Mnuchin, the US Treasury secretary, has exhorted Congress to act on the debt limit before then, as has Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader....
August 23, 2017
US politics & policy
McCain cancer news shakes Capitol Hill
...Mr McConnell’s hopes of getting the minimum number of votes to pass healthcare reforms are now more slender....
July 20, 2017
Aerospace & Defence
Gloom hangs over Bombardier’s Belfast operations amid tariff threat
...Imelda McConnell, a retired civil servant, said Washington’s ruling marked the moment in which Donald Trump’s America First policy came to Belfast....
September 27, 2017
Gavyn Davies
Doves and hawks in the race for Fed Chair
...most people believed had been sacked from the White House in August (despite official claims that he “resigned”), would disrupt Republican plans for the mid term elections in 2018 by ousting many of Mitch McConnell...
October 8, 2017
US politics & policy
Rosenstein faces calls to name outside lawyer for probe
...Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, likewise rejected Democratic calls for an outside counsel or special congressional panel, saying on Wednesday that any new probe “could only serve to impede the...
May 10, 2017
US tax
Republicans fear Trump turmoil will derail agenda
...“I think we could do with a little less drama from the White House on a lot of things,” Mr McConnell said this week....
May 18, 2017
Tax
Trump muddies the waters on import tax plan
...Rohit Kumar, a former aide to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell who is now at PwC, said: “I don’t think the vagueness or lack of specificity on border adjustment was an accident....
March 2, 2017
US politics & policy
What are executive orders and why is Trump using them?
...“The courts are going to determine whether this is too broad,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday. Why has the president done this?...
January 29, 2017
News in-depthThe Big Read
Donald Trump: The next four years
...A Republican source says Mr McConnell did not want to use this “nuclear option”, which can work in the short term but come back to haunt the party later....
November 11, 2016

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