Even while riding the high of his party’s dead-of-night tax victory, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) still wouldn’t call the GOP’s $1.5 trillion “gift to the rich” the crowning achievement of his career. That honor, McConnell told Bloomberg in an interview, remains with “Neil Gorsuch and the changes we’re making in the circuit courts.”

“But this would be a really close second,” McConnell said, referring to the tax legislation.

Matt Fuller, politics reporter for the Huffington Post, helpfully translated McConnell’s remarks:

This “achievement” has its origins in 2016, when McConnell refused to even consider Merrick Garland, former President Barack Obama’s selection to replace the deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.