Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said new leadership in the House is “inevitable” as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) seeks to retain the top post in the chamber. ” I predicted.
“We're going to need new leadership. We're going to have new leadership in the Senate next year. And unless I'm just mistaken, I think the writing is on the wall. It seems to me that new leadership in the House is almost inevitable,” Lee told political commentator Benny Johnson on “The Benny Show.”
Mr Lee's comments come amid uncertainty over how Mr Johnson will take the gavel ahead of a Jan. 3 Commons vote on how he will handle the year-end spending deal. Some Republicans are questioning Johnson's leadership, as President-elect Trump and Elon Musk have voiced opposition to the bill.
On the program, Mr. Lee, who is scheduled to become chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee next year, will speak with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.Y.) and outgoing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.). ), Speaker Johnson, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (New York).
“There is no joy in seeing a government process that can and should be orderly turn into needlessly chaotic, but it is an inevitable outcome. “It's been 10 years since the demise of Schumer, McConnell, Johnson and Jeffries,” Lee said. Ta.
He added: “There's a four-man cartel that has controlled Congress for the 14 years I've been here. It's gone through different iterations from time to time,” adding that lawmakers “have shaken us up again.” .
During the interview, Lee suggested that Republicans choose either Vivek Ramaswamy or Musk as chairman, citing their leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“Let me choose one of them, I don't care, to be the chairman,” Lee said. “It will revolutionize everything. Companies will collapse.”
