McConnell Says Barrett Confirmation to Continue on Schedule
- Senate leader seeks to cancel other work as virus spreads
- Three GOP senators announced they tested positive for Covid-19
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the fast-track schedule for confirming Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee won’t be affected by Covid-19 diagnoses of the president and three Republican senators, despite rising concern about a wider spread of the virus in the government.
McConnell said Saturday he’ll seek consent from Democrats to put the Senate on hiatus for the next two weeks, but that the work on confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett will continue.