Johnson slams Schumer’s call for elections in Israel as ‘highly inappropriate’ and ‘wrong’

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va.— Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) slammed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) call for new elections in Israel, calling the plea from the New York Democrat “highly inappropriate” and “wrong.”

The remarks — made during a last-minute press conference at the House GOP retreat in West Virginia on Thursday — came shortly after Schumer delivered remarks on the Senate floor that implored Israel to hold new elections and sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as having “lost his way.”

“We want to speak very clearly and concisely to say that this is not only highly inappropriate, it's just plain wrong for an American leader to play such a divisive role in Israeli politics while our closest ally in the region is in an existential battle for its very survival,” Johnson said at a press conference alongside other House GOP leaders.

“We need to be standing with Israel. We need to give our friends and allies our full support. We have to stand with and support them right now. But what you're seeing from the White House and clearly from the Senate Democrats, is really exactly the opposite,” he added.

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