“This is not a decision I made, this is a fact,” McConnell said in a statement.
He added that it would be in US interests "for Congress and the executive to spend the next seven days fully focused on helping a safe inauguration and proper handover of power to the future Biden administration."
Earlier it was reported that the House of Representatives began to consider a resolution to impeach Trump, after which a two-hour debate on impeachment began.
On January 6, a protest by Trump supporters took place in Washington, which escalated into riots.
The demonstrators broke into the congress building, where the procedure for approving the results of the presidential elections was taking place.
After that, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi called for the use of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution and remove Trump from power before the end of his term, January 20.