The Utah Senator was captured running from NBC journalists asking about his claim that Vance Boelter was a ‘Marxist.’

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,

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.

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

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,

Make shipping affordable again is the idea behind new legislation introduced by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. The Open America’s Waters Act, introduced Thursday, would repeal the Jones Act, aimed at deregulating the U.S.’s coastal trade and helping mitigate America’s energy crisis.

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.