Michael Turner (R-Ohio ), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has been ousted by the House Speaker, Mike Johnson (R-La ). ), apparently at the urging of Donald Trump.
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Turner claimed that it was his thought, claiming that he wanted a “fresh stop” for the Committee with a new Congress and a new president. Johnson claimed the House of Representatives had sole authority over the problem.
That’s no good. Turner resentful to Trump backers on numerous occasions. Some Do members were offended by his support for the monitoring bill that next year renewed Section 701 powers and his unwavering support for Ukraine funding.
Two potential replacements for Turner are Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas ), former Trump personal physician at the White House, and Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa. ), former Chairman of the Freedom Caucus.
Trump’s most important move to time is to kick Turner out of the Intel head in order to influence Congress. It sends the most powerful message but that America’s foreign policy may undergo substantial adjustments over the next four years, forcing both partners to adjust to the new” America First” experiences.
Additionally, it sent a message to another Republicans that bipartisanship is dead.
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Mr. Turner was highly regarded by his Democratic colleagues for reinstituting a soul of bipartisanship on the knowledge screen, something that had been decimated during Mr. Trump’s second term, when past Representatives Devin Nunes, Republican of California, and Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California — and presently a senator — often clashed.
Official Jim Himes of Connecticut, the leading Democrat on the board, told reporters Wednesday night that Mr. Turner’s treatment” sends a shudder down my spine”.
Himes added that the resignation of Chairman Turner “makes our nation less stable and is a bad sign for what’s to come,” according to Himes in the statement. According to the Constitution, Congress must serve as the professional branch’s check and balance rather than comply with its needs.
Perhaps one of the factors Turner was sacked was because so many Progressives had gotten behind him.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va. ), the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he was “flabbergasted” Thursday by the decision to remove Turner.
Although it is up to the Speaker to decide, he said,” Mike Turner was the kind of person who restored the House Intelligence Committee to the kind of republican value it once lost.” ” I wish Mike well”.
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” Mike Turner is a serious, thoughtful, and highly-principled president, whose function as Chair of the House Intelligence Committee has been really impactful”, House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N. Y. ) said.  ,
It’s a different planet. It’s then a world where America’s position will be ill-defined, leaving concerns for our friends and opponents to examine. Will it be a safer earth?
Only time will tell.
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