Another'n Bites It

218 Republicans minus Ken Buck and Mike Gallagher = 216

213 Democrats plus two Republicans willing to vote with them = 215-to-214 and Dems win

Rep. Mike Gallagher announces he’ll resign in April, further narrowing House GOP majority

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) announced Friday he will resign effective April 19, further narrowing Republicans’ already razor-thin House majority.

Gallagher, who had already announced he would not seek reelection this year, said he made the decision to resign after conversations with his family. He currently chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.

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“I’ve worked closely with House Republican leadership on this timeline and look forward to seeing Speaker [Mike] Johnson appoint a new chair to carry out the important mission of” the committee, Gallagher said in a statement.

Republicans currently have a five-seat majority after Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) resigned Friday, leaving the House earlier than he initially anticipated because he found his majority to be unproductive.

Gallagher has represented Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District since 2017.

He announced in February he would not run for another term, saying in a statement that “electoral politics was never supposed to be a career and, trust me, Congress is no place to grow old.”