The Broken (and Shrinking Fast) House GOP

The Republican-ruled U.S. House of Representatives has become a broken home, with a promising GOP lawmaker leaving and the latest House Speaker on the ropes. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisconsin, announced he will quit Congress on April 19, reducing the GOP to a one-vote majority. A fellow Republican, Colorado Rep. Ken Buck, was clearing out his office after casting his last vote.

As the House passed a $1.2 trillion appropriations bill — on the strength of Democratic votes — far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, was on the U.S. Capitol steps announcing a motion to vacate the Speaker’s office. A majority of House Republicans had just voted against a spending bill described by Speaker Mike Johnson as “the best achievable outcome in a divided government.”

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Fox News loves to run Democrats-in-Disarray headlines. Now House Republicans have formed a circular firing squad, with mounting casualties. The most divisive members of their caucus are favored guests of such Fox hosts as Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.

MAGA extremists last fall purged House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, himself a strident partisan, for daring to do a deal preventing a government shutdown. McCarthy quit Congress. A special election for his California seat is slated later this spring.

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