Time is running out for lawmakers on Capitol Hill to address a number of pressing issues before the session ends and they leave Washington until after the Nov. 5 election. The government will run out of funding come Sept. 30 without a continuing resolution; House Republicans are putting a full-court press on the Harris-Walz ticket through a number of committee probes; legislators are attempting to get to the bottom of not just one but two attempts on former President Donald Trump’s life.
That sense of urgency is apparently lost on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, sources tell The Daily Signal. Rather than addressing House Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to attach the SAVE Act to a six-month continuing resolution or the second assassination attempt on Trump in just over two months, McConnell devoted the Senate GOP’s Tuesday luncheon to discussing the merits of…