Burchett calls for new Senate leadership after DHS vote [View all]
Source: The Hill
03/29/26 4:25 PM ET
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Sunday his party needs new leadership in the Senate after the GOP-controlled upper chamber passed a partial funding package for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the dead of night. Burchett called the package a “huge mistake” and said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) should have been informed about the legislation sooner.
“Obviously, the leadership in the Senate, and that’s on both sides of the aisle, has a real disgust for this president and House leadership because they didn’t even have the guts to call Mike Johnson and let them know what happened,” Burchett said during an appearance on Fox News’s “The Sunday Briefing.”
“The whole deal of, you know, the stereotype of Congress is, and it’s well deserved, is that we pass stuff in the dark of night because we don’t have any guts. And that’s clearly what’s shown in the Senate leadership. I think they need to get some new leadership over there, in my opinion,” he added.
Burchett isn’t the only House Republican to slam Senate GOP leaders over the deal made early Friday morning to fund the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and other agencies housed under DHS. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.C.) was a “thorn in the side” of the Republican Party.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5806741-burchett-slams-senate-leadership/
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