Senator McConnell talks inflation, economy in visit with Rotary

The Rotary Club of Hopkinsville got a visit from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday, who spoke on an array of topics ranging from the War in Ukraine to toll bridges.

Senator McConnell has served as both the majority and the minority in the United States Senate and says he’s seen and done a lot in his time in office. He says he doesn’t agree with the Biden administration on much, but one thing that did happen in a bipartisan fashion was passage of a $5 billion infrastructure bill.

He says Americans are facing record inflation rates and he believes it was the result of a political mistake from when President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Senator McConnell says he knows people worry about rhetoric in politics, as does he, but he says the United States will never lose that spirit of democracy.

The senator says the U.S. must continue to support the Ukrainians and he believes it is critical that Russia be defeated there—he called Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy an inspiration not just in Ukraine, but across the world.

You can hear his entire remarks here: