GOP Lawmakers Use Iran’s Attack on Israel to Blast Biden
GOP officials from both the House and the Senate took to the Sunday shows to try and chastise President Joe Biden for Iran’s attack on Israel on Saturday—even as Biden directed the U.S. to help intercept Iran’s drone and missiles.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), along with Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), J.D. Vance (R-OH), and John Kennedy (R-LA), all appeared on various Sunday morning talk shows to respond to Iran’s Saturday attack on Israel, its first direct attack on the U.S. ally. Each of them took turns in their respective interviews bashing the Biden administration’s Middle East policies—and then said that more aid funding needed to pass Congress to bolster Israel’s defenses.
Turner, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, tried to use his Meet the Press interview on Sunday to rail against the Biden administration’s perceived deference to Iran, arguing that the White House’s insistence on Sunday that it did not want to further escalate the conflict amounted to a dismissal of Iran’s attack, which came days after the killing of one of Iran’s top officials in Syria (which Tehran blames on Israel).