This latest resignation will leave House Republicans with a 217-213 majority, meaning they can't lose more than one vote on a party-line vote.
Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who has spearheaded House pushback against the Chinese government, said Friday he would resign from the House, leaving House Republicans with the thinnest of majorities.
Gallagher said in a statement,"I've 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." A Republican state senator, Andre Jacque of De Pere, and a former state senator, Roger Roth, are running for the Wisconsin 8th Congressional District seat that is being vacated.The district is solidly Republican, but the Wisconsin Democratic Party said in a statement that it would be"fighting hard" for the seat and called Gallagher's resignation"a remarkable indictment of a do-nothing GOP majority obsessed with creating chaos.
Gallagher led the successful push this month to pass in the House a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok if its China-based owner doesn't sell its stake. He, along with a wide bipartisan contingent, argued that the company's current ownership represented a national security threat.
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