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MNI POLITICAL RISK - McConnell's Health A Risk For Legislation

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  • Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) yesterday experienced a second health incident in as many months during a press conference in Kentucky. The Republican leader reappeared to answer several more questions but he appeared frail and required assistance from an aide. The episode will certainly raise more questions about the eighty-one-year-old’s capacity to lead his party ahead of a hectic Congressional session.
  • Conservative House Republicans are continuing to threaten a government shutdown if their demands for fiscal restraint are not met in government funding bills.
  • Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says her four-day China trip had "no setbacks."
  • Former President Donald Trump has argued in a letter to the Wall Street Journal that under his administration’s trade policy, “Price increases for consumers were virtually nonexistent and there was effectively no inflation...”
  • White House officials yesterday warned that increased military cooperation between Russia and North Korea indicates that Moscow is looking for new sources of weapons to fill shortfalls created by US sanctions.
  • The Department of Labor yesterday announced new rules to restore and extend overtime protections for workers.
  • Poll of the Day: Biden remains bookmarkers favourite for 2024.
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