Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) suffered a sprained wrist however was not in any other case significantly injured after falling following a weekly lunch gathering together with his colleagues, his workplace mentioned Tuesday.

“Chief McConnell tripped following lunch. He sustained a minor reduce to the face and sprained his wrist. He has been cleared to renew his schedule,” based on the assertion.

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) mentioned McConnell’s fall occurred after he left the lunch and was going by way of a Senate reception room. He mentioned McConnell had a reduce to his face however was in a position to make it to his workplace with out help.

At a weekly press convention not lengthy after McConnell’s fall, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) gave an replace on the Kentucky Republican, saying, “He’s positive. He’s in his workplace.”

McConnell, who will flip 83 in February, has had a historical past of well being points. He determined to not run once more for get together chief after struggling two public freezes at weekly press conferences in 2023. Thune will change him as head of the Senate GOP.

McConnell additionally had a concussion and damaged ribs after he fell at a fundraising dinner final yr.

After the primary freeze up, McConnell joked he had been “sandbagged,” a reference to President Joe Biden blaming an ill-placed sandbag on stage for a public fall after a speech in June 2023. In his second freezing episode, a spokesman mentioned McConnell paused after feeling “momentarily lightheaded.”

Whereas McConnell will not be the top-ranking Republican within the Senate in 2025, a publish he held since 2007, he’ll nonetheless be influential because the chair of the subcommittee that offers with annual defence spending.