Mitch McConnell selects Thom Tillis for a Senate Republican leadership spot

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has picked Thom Tillis to serve as a counselor to Senate Republican leadership after his banner year as a bipartisan negotiator.

While the counsel position isn’t an official role, McConnell has historically offered one or two counselor positions to rank-and-file members of the Senate to have a seat at the leadership table. Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

Tillis emerged during the first two years of the Biden presidency – with a 50-50 Senate and Democrat-majority House – as a key negotiator in major pieces of bipartisan legislation, like gun safety law reform last year, the infrastructure package in 2021 and the Respect for Marriage Act.