McConnell suffered concussion after fall, will stay in hospital for 'a few days,' his office says

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is being treated for a concussion astatine a infirmary aft helium fell astatine a hotel, his bureau said Thursday.

McConnell, 81, is expected to stay hospitalized "for a fewer days of reflection and treatment," according to a connection from his spokesperson David Popp.

"The Leader is grateful to the aesculapian professionals for their attraction and to his colleagues for their lukewarm wishes," the connection said.

McConnell's bureau revealed precocious Wednesday nighttime that the Kentucky Republican was admitted to a infirmary aft tripping during a backstage dinner. The autumn reportedly came aft an lawsuit successful Washington, D.C., for the Senate Leadership Fund, a ace PAC aligned with GOP leadership.

"Jill and I are wishing Senator McConnell a speedy recovery," President Joe Biden said successful a tweet earlier Thursday afternoon. "We look guardant to seeing him backmost connected the Senate floor."

McConnell was reelected successful 2020 to a seventh word successful the Senate. He served arsenic Senate bulk person from 2015 until 2021, erstwhile Democrats regained bulk power of the chamber.

He was reelected arsenic the Senate's number person past November, prevailing implicit sustained disapproval from the Republican Party's de facto leader, erstwhile President Donald Trump.