Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are weighing in on ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely after comments that he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing.

Sen. Kevin Cramer, a Republican representing North Dakota, told the Associated Press that Kimmel is "getting what he deserves."

"One of the things that makes a liberal a liberal is when they think they're smarter than everybody else and say anything they want because they're so brilliant. And everyone ought to listen," Cramer said.

Earlier in the day, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called Kimmel’s comments “truly sick” and said his agency has a strong case for holding Kimmel, ABC and network parent Walt Disney Co. accountable for spreading misinformation. He said the comic appeared to be making an intentional effort to mislead the public that Kirk’s assassin was a right-wing Trump supporter.

"A veiled threat, occasionally maybe, you know, if that's what scares off ABC, maybe they need a little bit of a scare," Cramer added.

During his Monday evening monologue, Kimmel suggested Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, might have been a pro-Trump Republican. “The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, said the move amounts to "censorship" and that television networks should stand up for free speech.

"The precipitous, premature kind of action against Kimmel reflects a lack of real backbone, which ought to worry not just the industry, but also its viewers and advertisers, because this kind of censorship will spread like a cancer. It will metastasize," Blumenthal said.

"Satire, humor, comedy are the stuff of political expression. Not just entertainment. And this kind of heavy-handed, ham-handed censorship is going to be a whirlwind that will come back to haunt the chairman of the FCC and others," he added.