Out went Turner (R-Ohio), a brash, prickly defense hawk who had been elevated by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and had become an internal headache for Johnson due to what many saw as his hamfisted handling of a divisive intraparty debate over surveillance powers.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday selected Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) to chair the House Intelligence Committee, elevating the veteran panel member to the role after he removed Rep. Mike

Johnson sent shockwaves around Capitol Hill when he decided to oust Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio — a staunch NATO supporter who has aggressively pushed for U.S. aid to Ukraine — as chair of the House Intelligence Committee and replace him with Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., a conservative who voted against the most recent Ukraine aid package.

The pro-Ukraine minority in the House GOP have taken several blows as the majority party reconfigures its committees and chairmanships for the new Congress.

Speaker Mike Johnson has made the House Intelligence Committee far friendlier to the MAGA movement, and the adverse consequences are likely to linger.

Speaker Mike Johnson—at the behest of President-elect Donald Trump—is removing Rep. Mike Turner as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, sources told the Daily Beast on Wednesday. Turner, whose committee oversees national intelligence agencies,

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson said he selected Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., to serve as the next chairman of the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday, one day after Johnson made the stunning decision to oust Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, from the role.

Representative Rick Crawford will be the next House Intelligence Committee chair, following his colleague Mike Turner’s unceremonious removal by Speaker Mike Johnson Wednesday.

President-elect Donald Trump’s influence has been apparent over the past week as the Republican Party, corporate America, and much of the international order have fallen into line behind him.

It seems odd to give Turner credit for voting to confirm the results of the 2020 presidential election; he was just doing his job. But that was a defining moment as to his position in the Republican Party. Two-thirds of House Republicans voted the other way.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) won the gavel to lead the 119th Congress with the support of President-elect Donald Trump behind his candidacy. But Johnson says emphatically that Trump did not infl