Republican Sen. Mike Lee is facing criticism over his social media posts about the assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband-- with one Democratic senator calling the posts "reprehensible.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) deleted his controversial posts about the Minnesota shooting over the weekend after multiple colleagues confronted him and asked him to delete them. On Sunday, Lee posted, “This is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way,

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.