Letting us grow grass under his feet after cruising to an easy election victory on Nov. 5, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley was back on the offensive by week’s end.

On Friday, just three days after defeating Democratic challenger Lucas Kunce, Missouri’s top senator threw himself into the middle of the upcoming Senate Majority Leader battle.

Hawley announced his support for U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, one of three senators vying for the upper chamber’s most powerful position.

“Over the last two years, no one has done more than him to win back the majority,” Hawley told The Hill, an online publication. “He has tirelessly raised millions of dollars for competitive Senate races, including mine.”

Hawley, now beginning a second term in the Senate, also noted that Cornyn has been a strong supporter of expanding and expanding the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, one of Hawley’s top legislative goals.

Cornyn is one of three candidates seeking to succeed Mitch McConnell, who led the GOP in the U.S. Senate as head of the Senate Republican Conference since 2007, including as majority leader from 2015 to 2021. Other candidates are John Thune from South Dakota and Rick Scott from Florida.

But Hawley did not limit his headlines to intraparty machinations.

On Saturday, Hawley asked the Department of Homeland Security to investigate allegations that Federal Emergency Management Agency employees played politics in relief efforts in hurricane-ravaged states.

More national new agencies reported over the weekend, a FEMA supervisor was fired after ordering workers assisting hurricane survivors not to go to homes with yard signs in support of President-elect Donald Trump.

In a letter to DHS, Hawley said “Screenshots of FEMA’s relief logs show that workers actually skipped about 20 homes on their canvassing routes, explicitly listing the sole reason as ‘Trump doesn’t sign any entries for each drive.’

Hawley told X: “All those involved must be identified, fired – and if necessary prosecuted.”

FEMA Administrator Deane Criswell called the situation “reprehensible” and said the supervisor’s action was “a clear violation of FEMA’s core values ​​and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation.”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told the media that the incidents occurred in his state, which was hit hard by back-to-back hurricanes Helene and Milton, which killed more than 200 people in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.