The shrinking Republican majority has raised concerns about the potential for an unprecedented shift in power mid-Congress.

When Republicans gained control of the House in November 2022, many in Washington wondered how they would be able to govern effectively with one of the slimmest majorities in history. Some Democrats even speculated if they might be able to take back the House before the term ended.

Sixteen months later, as the Republican majority has shrunk even further, House Speaker Mike Johnson is admitting that possibility. He told Fox News on Monday that there is a slim chance he could lose the speakership to Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries in the next few weeks amid a wave of early retirements. "That’s a risk,” Johnson said of Democrats taking control of the House.

Already three Republican lawmakers have resigned from their posts mid-term—Reps. Kevin McCarthy, Bill Johnson, and Ken Buck. A fourth Republican, Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, is expected to step down in mid-April, bringing the party’s former nine-seat majority down to just 217-213 as Republicans lost a fifth seat after George Santos was expelled from the House.

  • xploit@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Wouldn’t surprise me the least if these early retirements were all planned so that Dems get house control few months before elections, can’t accomplish anything with it because bunch of them are just as useless (double agents?) as republicunts, and republicunts get to blame all the inactivity over these two years on dems and everyone will eat it up

    • Dkarma@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      You absolutely want to control the house.

      Can you idiots stop pretending “the GOP will say…” Is a valid excuse to not do something we were going to do.

      The gop will always criticize the Democrats in bad faith no matter what. Stop fucking pretending otherwise.

    • xploit@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I’ll have to reply to myself because, well I decided to block the person below for somewhat obvious reasons.

      But, there is something to consider there; yea republicunts will always blame shit on dems, however there are still some among their ranks who aren’t complete and utter nut jobs and do try hard to back up their accusations with some form of facts (fabricated or otherwise, not like news know the difference).

      And the last bit of consideration; orangecunt is dumb, world around knows that, however every so often, someone around him is so malicious and just enough forward-thinking that they managed to suggest fixing the one legal action against him which could actually sink him, by putting in a puppet judge. You could say that her days are numbered, but the work is done.

      I suppose that leaves you Americans with the only real option. To make sure you vote for the other wrinkly turd… should be dry enough to not stain your clothes future too much, unlike the orange one.

      Also don’t get me wrong, my original comment does sound like some conspiracy theory nutjob, and I mostly wrote it to get people more comfortable calling cuntservatives what they really are.