Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday that this will be his last term in the United States Senate.
But McConnell still has two years before the end of his current term.
And Mitch McConnell made one promise in his retirement announcement that could mean trouble for Donald Trump.
The Senate confirmed Kash Patel as the new FBI Director on Thursday.
Patel was one of the most controversial nominees put forward by Donald Trump.
He is the former acting Director of National Intelligence and previously worked to expose the FBI’s role in the Russian collusion hoax.
The Senate confirmed Patel by a vote of 51 to 49.
After the vote took place, Mitch McConnell took the floor of the Senate to deliver a speech.
“I will not seek this honor an eighth time,” McConnell announced. “My current term in the Senate will be my last.”
Conservatives across the country erupted with cheers over the news of McConnell’s retirement announcement.
McConnell turned 83 on Thursday and has been suffering from rapidly declining health.
During his long tenure in the Senate, McConnell undermined and sold out conservatives at every opportunity.
McConnell was first elected in 1984 when Ronald Reagan was President.
In 2006, McConnell became the Republican Leader in the Senate.
Even though he stepped down from his position, he still holds the record as the longest-serving GOP leader in Senate history.
McConnell has been one of the Democrats’ top allies during his long career in politics.
He passed the largest gun control bill in the past 30 years, caved in on the debt ceiling, ramped up illegal spying on Americans, and supported foreign intervention overseas.
McConnell has sold out on virtually every conservative issue.
“Thanks to Ronald Reagan’s determination, the work of strengthening American hard power was well underway when I arrived in the Senate,” McConnell said in his announcement.
“But since then, we’ve allowed that power to atrophy,” he continued. “And today, a dangerous world threatens to outpace the work of rebuilding it.”
McConnell then made it clear that he will be a thorn in Trump’s side for the next two years.
“So, lest any of our colleagues still doubt my intentions for the remainder of my term: I have some unfinished business to attend to,” he said. “The Senate is still equipped for work of great consequence, and, to the disappointment of my critics, I’m still here on the job.”
Mitch McConnell represents the neocon warmongering wing of the Republican Party that Trump wrestled control from when he took over the GOP.
He previously vowed to “fight back against the isolationist movement in my own Party.”
Based on his announcement, McConnell will spend the next two years trying to undermine Donald Trump’s America First policies.
But Mitch McConnell’s health is deteriorating.
He’s had multiple episodes where he froze in the middle of a speech on top of several falls that injured him.
McConnell may not make it to the end of his term.
But he will be a problem for Donald Trump until the day he is no longer in office.
