Rep. Mike Gallagher’s early departure means that Republicans’ majority will shrink to a one-vote margin, with 217 seats to Democrats’ 213.
The announcement that he’s leaving his House seat on April 19 comes little over a month after Gallagher said he wouldin Congress has been the honor of a lifetime and strengthened my conviction that America is the greatest country in the history of the world,” he said in auntil the 2024 elections in November. His early departure means that Republicans’ majority in the House will shrink to a one-vote margin, with 217 seats to Democrats’ 213.in the U.S.
In his statement Tuesday, Gallagher wrote that he’d “worked closely with House Republican leadership on this timeline and look forward to seeing Speaker Johnson appoint a new chair to carry out the important mission of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.” Gallagher garnered some heat from his fellow Republicans last month when he opposed the removal of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. He warned his colleagues that voting to oust Mayorkas would allow Republican secretaries to be more easily removed in the future., an ally of Donald Trump, told The Daily Beast that Gallagher couldn’t be trusted, and said he was planning an exploratory committee to primary him.
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