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Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., chairman of the Home choose committee on China, introduced he is leaving Congress on April 19 – which can briefly go away Home Republicans with only a one-seat majority.
Gallagher revealed in February that he wouldn’t be working for a fifth time period within the Home, a stunning announcement for somebody lengthy thought-about a rising star inside the Republican Get together.
His early departure will imply that Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can solely afford to lose one GOP lawmaker on any vote that falls alongside social gathering traces. That may possible stay the case till Could 21, when there is a particular election to switch ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
Rep. Mike Gallagher introduced he could be leaving Congress in April, a month after saying he would not search re-election (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Pictures)
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox Information Digital main protection of the Home of Representatives. Earlier digital bylines seen at Every day Mail and CBS Information.
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