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🚔   Johnson removes Mike Turner as House Intelligence chair

Speaker Mike Johnson removed Rep. Mike Turner as chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday, saying he wanted to give the panel a "fresh start" in a new Congress and with a new president. But conservative hard-liners in the House and other Republicans loyal to President-elect Donald Trump had been pressing Johnson for months to remove the Ohio Republican. Johnson cited Trump as a reason for the ouster when the speaker met with Turner Wednesday night, according to a person familiar with the conversation who was granted anonymity to describe it. Turner told CBS News' Margaret Brennan that Johnson had cited "concerns from Mar-a-Lago"

SOTT     Jan 17, 2025