Overview
- Punchbowl News reported that Republican leaders imposed a three‑month ban on Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s international travel after an August CODEL to Mexico where he toasted a crude remark that made a woman uncomfortable.
- Following the trip, Crenshaw met with Speaker Mike Johnson and Intelligence Committee chair Rick Crawford in a heated meeting where Crawford sought his removal from the panel.
- Johnson did not remove Crenshaw from the Intelligence Committee, but his internal 'cartel task force' was dissolved.
- The internal fallout coincided with a policy dispute, as Crawford pushed for increased counterintelligence funding that Crenshaw did not back.
- Those funds were included in the intelligence authorization bill that reached the House floor, according to Punchbowl, whose reporting was relayed by Alternet and Raw Story.