HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) - Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday calling for him to designate athletic and extracurricular activities at Department of Defense Education Activity schools as excepted during the government shutdown.

In the letter, Senator McConnell highlighted the cancellation of football games at Fort Campbell and Fort Knox, which he said could risk disrupting individuals student-athletes' aspirations of competing at the college level. McLean County High School's football team was scheduled to face Fort Knox on Friday.

Senator McConnell praised Hegseth's emphasis on physical fitness for members of the armed forces, but said the children of servicemembers at the high schools should not have to pay the price for the governmen

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