Home Speaker Mike Johnson booted Rep. Mike Turner as Chairman of the Home Intel Committee.
“Speaker Mike Johnson has eliminated Mike Turner as chair Home Everlasting Choose Committee on Intelligence, three folks acquainted with the choice inform POLITICO. Turner has been an outspoken advocate for Ukraine funding and different hawkish nationwide safety stances.” – Politico reported.
Stress between Speaker Johnson and Mike Turner has been simmering for practically a 12 months.
Final February, Mike Turner desperately sounded the alarm a couple of imprecise ‘critical nationwide safety menace’ after Speaker Johnson killed a Senate invoice with Ukraine help.
In response to a leak to CNN, the menace was supposedly “associated to Russia.”
“A number of sources acquainted with the intelligence characterised it as “very delicate,” CNN reported final 12 months.
“One of many sources who has seen the intelligence confirmed that “it’s, in reality, a extremely regarding and destabilizing” Russian functionality “that we have been lately made conscious of.”” the outlet reported.
The Home Intel Committee made the announcement shortly after Speaker Mike Johnson shut down the Senate help invoice which allotted billions of {dollars} to Ukraine.
Assertion from Chairman @RepMikeTurner: pic.twitter.com/OA9yJuEPlf
— Home Intelligence Committee (@HouseIntel) February 14, 2024
THE TIMING WAS SUSPICIOUS.
Shortly earlier than Mike Turner sounded the alarm on some imprecise menace, he traveled to Kiev to satisfy with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“The US is working diligently within the Home of Representatives and the Senate to safe the funding that’s mandatory in 2024,” Turner informed reporters at a presser in Kiev final February.
After coming back from a visit to Kiev, Rep. Mike Turner aggressively pushed Mike Johnson to step it up and convey the Senate help invoice to the ground for a vote ASAP.
“We have now to get this executed,” Mike Turner mentioned claiming there was not a second to spare as a result of Ukraine is working out of munitions. “That is now not a problem of, ‘When will we assist Ukraine?’ If we don’t transfer, this can be abandoning Ukraine.”
“The speaker might want to deliver it to the ground,” he mentioned.
Mike Turner didn’t get his Ukraine funding so he put strain on Speaker Johnson by urgently asserting there was a nationwide safety menace associated to Russia.
It seems Speaker Johnson now not needs to cope with Mike Turner’s threats and antics so he ousted him as Intel Committee Chair.
