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In this July 24, 2021, file photo, former President Donald Trump speaks on a variety of topics to supporters at a Turning Point Action gathering in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) ** FILE **

Trump-McConnell rift widens over infrastructure deal

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Then-President Donald Trump meets with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, shown left, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, not shown, in the Oval Office at the White House, Monday, July 20, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Trump blames McConnell for infrastructure bill’s passage: ‘Most overrated man in politics’

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 25, 2019, photo, Giffords Law Center Senior Policy Adviser David Chipman speaks at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on assault weapons on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Biden administration had nominated Chipman, a former federal agent and adviser at the gun control group Giffords, to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

McConnell urges Biden to withdraw ‘misguided’ nomination of David Chipman to head ATF

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves the chamber as lawmakers work to advance the $1 trillion bipartisan bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell rules out GOP votes for hiking the debt ceiling

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump points to supporters after speaking at a Turning Point Action gathering in Phoenix on Saturday, July 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) **FILE**

Trump urges GOP to reject infrastructure deal: ‘Don’t let the radical left play you’ for ‘fools’

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, walks to his office at the Capitol ahead of a test vote schedule by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York on the bipartisan infrastructure deal senators brokered with President Joe Biden, in Washington, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Republicans prepared to block the vote by mounting a filibuster over what they see as a rushed and misguided process. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

McConnell: Not a ‘single Republican’ is going to back raising the debt ceiling

By Alan Fram - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to the media after a GOP policy luncheon, on Capitol Hill i on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

McConnell urges Americans to get vaccinated: ‘This is not complicated’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Trader Richard Brophy works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Stocks wobbled between small gains and losses in early trading Tuesday as investors weigh the latest quarterly earnings reports from big U.S. companies and concerns about inflation. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

A new inflation number, a new headache for Biden

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference on voting rights at the Department of Justice in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Georgia lawsuit shows AG Garland is a partisan, no moderate

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., does a cable news interview before the start of a two-week recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. Earlier, President Joe Biden announced a bipartisan agreement on a pared-down infrastructure plan that would make a start on his top legislative priority and validate his efforts to reach across the political aisle. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

McConnell urges Biden to rebuke Dems for holding infrastructure ‘hostage’

By Haris Alic and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., returns to the Senate chamber after a news conference to criticize the Democrat push to pass a voting rights bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 17, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republican senators dampen Democratic hopes for voting bill

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

Gladys Sicknick, mother of the late U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, speaks to the media as she arrives at the office of Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 27, 2021. She is escorted by Harry Dunn, left, a U.S. Capitol Police officer who faced the rioters on Jan. 6. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mother of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick visits GOP senators ahead of Jan. 6 commission vote

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is surrounded by reporters as senators rush to the chamber for votes ahead of the approaching Memorial Day recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Lawmakers still face standoffs on an infrastructure bill, police reform, voting rights, and a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Joe Manchin: ‘No excuse’ for Republicans to oppose Jan. 6 panel

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this May 26, 2021, photo, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves a GOP lunch at the Capitol in Washington. Senate Republicans are ready to deploy the filibuster to block legislation establishing a commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. A vote is expected Thursday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell urges Senate Republicans to vote against Jan. 6 commission

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., reacts after bumping into an American flag before speaking to the media, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, after a meeting of Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Mitch McConnell: Joe Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal will hamper counterterrorism efforts

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during the signing ceremony for legislation intended to curtail a striking rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Chuck Schumer accuses GOP of shifting ‘goalposts’ on Jan 6. panel

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speak to reporters outside the White House after a meeting with President Joe Biden, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Mitch McConnell says he will oppose ‘slanted and unbalanced’ Jan. 6 commission bill

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a briefing at the White House, Tuesday, May 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

White House on McConnell’s opposition: ‘100% of our focus is on delivering relief’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., arrives ahead of President Joe Biden speaking to a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Mitch McConnell: ‘We are not going to revisit the 2017 tax bills’

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 24, 2021, file photo, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the House Republican Conference chair, joins the other GOP leaders speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Liz Cheney, GOP conference chair, says she ‘would not’ support Donald Trump for president in 2024

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times