House Republicans now have one of the smallest majorities in history

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Source: NBC News

Jan. 23, 2024, 12:47 PM EST


WASHINGTON — The 118th House of Representatives has been marked by its history-making moments: the first multiballot speaker election in 100 years, the first speaker ever to be voted out of office and the first member expelled without a conviction since the Civil War.

While Republicans have had a narrow majority through it all, they're entering another history-making moment this week: one of the smallest House majorities ever.

House Republicans have lost three members since December, with the expulsion of Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., the resignation of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep. Bill Johnson’s, R-Ohio, departure this week to start a new job as the president of Youngstown State University. Republicans hold 219 seats to Democrats’ 213, giving new Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., little margin for error to pass legislation.

With Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., out until February for treatments related to his blood cancer diagnosis, that shrinks the majority even further.

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[Lonestarblue]

1. And after 2024, may they slink back into the minority so Democrats can actually pass budgets and get the business

of the country done.

[leftieNanner]

4. More importantly

We need the gavel for the January 6 counting of the electoral votes.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. GOP stole the House with gerrymandered court cases.

They stand for nothing but opportunism. For themselves.

[Ford_Prefect]

8. A significant number of them stand for Putin's subjugation of American rule of law.

[Walleye]

3. We only need four more Republicans to get fed up and throw in the towel. Speaker Hakeem Jeffries

[Kittycatkat]

5. Scalise may not dodge this bullet...

[JoseBalow]

9. He didn't dodge the last one

[TomDaisy]

10. he has earned himself a lot of bad karma

[RockRaven]

6. Some of those seats will be re-filled by special elections, so it is a fluid margin.

[maxsolomon]

7. It matters little

Johnson doesn't intend to pass legislation.

[NNadir]

11. The Republican Party actually doesn't have a majority at all since...

...it's really two parties, the insane Maga party, and the nominally sane yet rather appalling residue that nonetheless believes in the rule of law and the Constitution.

Both are minority parties.

[Novara]

13. Yep. They cannibalize themselves

They can't work together no matter what.

[LiberalFighter]

12. Just need 4 seats to gain the majority.

Each additional win is another two seat difference.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Heckuva job Moses