President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have moved on from a "low point" in their relationship, the latter said, as their bond risks falling apart again ahead of the November midterms.
McConnell spoke with The Washington Post and said he and Trump have patched things up after feuding over a variety of issues last year. Still, a looming budget battle before the midterms risks putting their relationship back on the rocks.
The pair butted heads after the Senate was unable to pass legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act last summer. And in the fall, they disagreed — for a brief time, at least — over the contentious Alabama special election that ended with Democrat Doug Jones defeating embattled Republican Roy Moore for a Senate seat.
"That was a low point for both of us," McConnell told the Post. "No question about it."
The Kentucky Republican said these days, however, he and Trump speak on the phone and in person on a regular basis. And some of those phone calls occur at off hours, when Trump rings up the majority leader from his cell phone.
"He calls me and I call him multiple times a week, and sometimes at unusual hours," McConnell told the Post. "About half the time, it's just on his cell to my cell, without any intermediary.
"We've talked a lot about the Senate situation, the races, what he can do to help. … He's got the biggest megaphone."
Republicans face the real possibility of losing one or both of their majorities on Capitol Hill in the midterms, something McConnell said in April he is worried about. Trump, on the other hand, has expressed optimism that the GOP will be able to stave off the Democratic charge across the nation.
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