Speaker Johnson removes Mike Turner as Intelligence Committee chair
by Emily Brooks, Rebecca Beitsch and Mychael Schnell - 01/15/25 5:58 PM ET
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will not make Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) chair of the House Intelligence Committee in the 119th Congress, a source familiar with the decision confirmed to The Hill.
Turner had been the top Republican on the committee, a position selected by the Speaker, since the start of 2022, chosen by then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for the role.
One Republican lawmaker told The Hill the decision was made after complaints from Freedom Caucus members.
Punchbowl News first reported Turner’s ouster.
Johnson’s decision to remove Turner comes as somewhat of a surprise. Though the Louisianan had not officially named a chair for the Intelligence panel for this Congress, Turner attended a dinner at Mar-a-Lago with President-elect Trump over the weekend with all the other House GOP standing committee chairs.
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