The way things are going with Repoublican House members bailing out?
The Democratic House leader COULD accend to the House Speakership by the Summer….
This the result of the internal civil war among Republicans in the House….
House Republicans have skipped town for Easter recess with their base enraged, their majority in tatters — and their speaker facing the prospect of a humiliating ouster at the hands of his own MAGA allies.
Why it matters: Dysfunction doesn’t even begin to cover it. The Senate’s passageof a $1.2 trillion spending bill at 2 am ET — narrowly averting a government shutdown — was perhaps the least dramatic development in a historic day on Capitol Hill.
In a matter of hours:
- The Republican-led House passed the spending bill just before noon Friday and sent it to the Senate — with more than half the House GOP conference, including many furious hardliners, voting against it.
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — one of those hardliners angry at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for helping push the bill — introduced a motion to vacatethe chair, calling for Johnson’s removal. Her move threatens to trigger the same type of vote that ended the career of his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy.
- Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), retiring chair of the House China Select Committee, announced suddenly he’ll leave Congress next month — leaving Republicans with an astonishing majority of just one seat.
- Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), who also is retiring early, departed for the final time — but not before signing a Democratic petition to force a vote on Ukraine aid, dealing one last blow to the GOP leadership he detested.
- House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) — who helped make impeaching President Biden one of the GOP majority’s top priorities — indicated his fizzling inquiry will end without a vote.
Behind the scenes: Republicans were left fuming over the early resignations of Gallagher and Buck, with some suggesting it’s now within the realm of possibility for the House majority to flip to Democrats mid-Congress….
image….ABC News
Doubt this will happen .
Then again who at the beginning of this Congress would have predicted the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker and his replacement by an unknown backbencher from Louisiana.
The political situation in this country is more volatile than at any time in my memory.So in such unsettled times,who knows what other surprises await.
The best part?
As Sen Murray points out?
The final agreement on the bills fit the McCarthy frame….
Was it just him?
I don’t know enough about Mike Gallagher’s and Ken Buck’s districts to know if they’ll be replaced by other Republicans. George Santos was a special case in a swing district.
I believe the two are from safe GOP districts
But I think Gallagher’s seat will remain open …
Scott might be up on this or Google