The Republican senator from Utah suggested in social media posts that the killings were the work of “Marxists,” and mocked Minnesota’s Democratic governor. He later issued a more sober condemnation of the violence.

Utah’s senior Senator, Mike Lee took to X over the weekend to comment on the killings of a Minnesota state senator and her husband and the shootings of two other state lawmakers, saying, “this is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way” accompanied by a picture of the suspect,

Learn more about the Republican lawmaker from Utah under fire for his response to the assassination of Democratic lawmakers on social media.

In an interview with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Klobuchar says Lee’s tweets make light of the fatal shooting.. including one calling the situation a “Nightmare on Waltz Street” she says she plans to confront him directly about the issue.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) harshly condemned a North Carolina state lawmaker’s photo of a “No Kings” rally, which showed someone carrying a prop of a beheaded President Donald Trump. Dozens of “No Kings” rallies were held across the nation on Saturday to protest the president,

Mike Lee, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, released draft legislation that could become part of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on Wednesday evening.