Rep. Brian Mast will chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee next year, a Republican organizing panel decided in a closed-door vote Monday, a source who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter said..
Mast’s election for the high-profile post was hotly contested, though current committee chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) did not seek a waiver to keep serving past his three-term limit. The full House Republican conference is expected to ratify the choice.
Mast (R-Fla.) will have to navigate Republicans’ growing ideological split over the US role in foreign conflicts, including whether and how to fund Ukraine’s defense against ...