Mitch McConnell relishes role as 'Grim Reaper'
1 / 2Congress ImmigrationSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., holds a news conference ahead of the Fourth of July break, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 27, 2019. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will"reluctantly" pass the Senate version of a border funding package even though it won't include the increased migrant protections Democrats had wanted.
He has also made a virtue of saying yes in one fundamentally important respect where the Senate has sole authority: the confirmation of judges. Both he and Trump constantly remind conservative audiences that the president has remade the federal judiciary with dozens of judges, and none so important as Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
His prominence was clear on the first night of the Democratic presidential debate, when the moderator asked the candidates directly,"Do you have a plan to deal with Mitch McConnell?" It was all quite exhilarating to McConnell, who said he was watching the baseball game, not the debates, but heard about his mentions, strongly suggesting he may have been paying closer attention than he let on."I understand my sin is that I've been stopping left wing agenda items coming out of the House," McConnell said.
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