McConnell’s Staff Raking in Six-Figure Sum in His Absence

Elizabeth Frantz / REUTERS In the seven weeks that former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been absent from the upper chamber, his staff has continued to earn tens of thousands of dollars. The Kentucky senator’s six highest-paid staffers earned a combined $173,200 pre-tax in the past 50 days that he has been missing from Capitol Hill, a Daily Beast analysis can reveal. When accounting for the rest of McConnell’s office, which has about 40 staffers including low-level employees, the…