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Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell said it had "been kind of a bad week for the isolationists" in the party.

"What's happening here is some of the isolationist movement led by Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon are distressed we may be helping the Israelis defeat the Iranians," McConnell told CNN.

Trump and then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called such requests a "blue state bailout" and suggested that the state should go bankrupt if it requests relief during the global emergency.

Such priorities reflect Leo’s enduring closeness to traditional Republican elites such as Sen. Mitch McConnell.

Sen. McConnell, for example, has voted against numerous Trump Cabinet nominations—not, to be sure, with any effect.