Republicans could end up having just a one-seat margin.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump pauses during a campaign rally at Lee's Family Forum in Henderson, Nev., Oct. 31, 2024.is set to take office in January with a razor-thin GOP majority in the House of Representatives that offers Republicans barely any margin of error.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has pleaded with Trump to avoid taking any more House members for his administration. House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks at a press conference for House Republicans, following their leadership meeting, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 13, 2024.Bands of hardline members have grown just large enough to block votes on bills, moves that were once viewed as beyond the pale within the halls of Congress.
In 2017, when Republicans passed a rewrite of the tax code during the first Trump administration, 12 House Republicans -- part of a larger majority at the time -- voted against the bill, but did not prevent its passage.
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