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Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher will resign early, leaving House majority hanging by a thread
NBC news ^ | 3/22/24 | Jonathan Allen and Scott Wong

Posted on 03/22/2024 11:50:16 AM PDT by CFW

WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., who announced last month he would not run for re-election, will resign from Congress early, he confirmed in a statement Friday.

Gallagher’s departure before the end of his term in January is another blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Republicans, who have been struggling to govern and demonstrate stability this Congress.

Two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News of Gallagher's plan to resign early on Friday. The Wisconsin Republican then released a statement announcing that he will depart on April 19.

The speaker's office confirmed that Gallagher informed Johnson of his decision earlier this week.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: assistantdemocrats; deepstate; democrats; gallagher; gop; gopestablishment; house; majority; mikegallagher; rino; rinos; uniparty
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To: CFW

"Gallagher's decision to leave on April 19 also means that there will not be a special election to fill his seat.

Under Wisconsin state law, vacancies after the second Tuesday in April are filled in the general election,

so Gallagher's replacement will be decided in November and his seat will remain empty until January."


41 posted on 03/22/2024 12:16:56 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: 1Old Pro
Should have kept Santos...

The disloyal opposition would simply have found another blackmailed Congresscritter to cause to resign.

Biden gets 25th Amendmented, or whacked. Harris is bribed to resign. Hakeem Jeffries, the 2024 Obama minime who by then will be the Speaker, takes over the Oval Office, becomes the Dem nominee, and is frauded into election.

42 posted on 03/22/2024 12:17:10 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: CFW

RINOs are Democrat sleeper cells.

Moderate Republicans are enablers.

Democrats are waging an all-out war against Republicans (and America) and will do whatever it takes to win.

Unfortunately, the Republican electorate keeps reelecting moderates and RINOs.

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” ~ Hosea 8:7


43 posted on 03/22/2024 12:17:40 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: chajin

Would they be able to try to get an assult wepins ban?


44 posted on 03/22/2024 12:18:39 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: frank ballenger
The liberals have (or at least had) the principle of "No enemy on the left."

The conservatives had, and continue to have, the principle of "Everyone to our right is our enemy."

Republican/Neocon/RINO/GOPe/Chamber of Communism "conservatives" will never rule if they continue this harmful virtue signaling of calling everyone to their right a fascist.

45 posted on 03/22/2024 12:19:10 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?action )
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To: cowboyusa

“How is it a 1 Seat majority if the GOP has 217 and the Dems have 213?”


If one GOP member defects on a vote, it would be 216 to 214.

If two GOP members vote with the Dems, the vote would 215 to 215.

According to House rules, in the case of a tie vote, a question before the chamber “shall be lost.”

So just think of the scenario of if a Bill was before the House to fund the building of the border wall. If more than one GOP member votes “nay” then the bill would not pass.


46 posted on 03/22/2024 12:19:35 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: CFW

That’s not going to happen anyway. The D3ms got the bill they wanted already.


47 posted on 03/22/2024 12:21:06 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: CFW

This is about handing control to the Dems before the election, the GOP having more than proven it is incapable of governing.


48 posted on 03/22/2024 12:21:09 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Good points.

We could have three or even four little non-Dem political parties. They had a slight Squad and pro-Hamas hiccup but cured it by betraying Israel. Burp.


49 posted on 03/22/2024 12:22:14 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: CFW

I don’t think it’s any of those things.

He’s just a quitter.

What’s cowardly is that he hides behind his family in explaining his vague reason to leave early.


50 posted on 03/22/2024 12:22:27 PM PDT by Fury
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To: CFW

100% More like paid off and contempt fir the American people. McCarthy and his friends are behind this. Let’s keep tabs on them to see where they land.


51 posted on 03/22/2024 12:22:27 PM PDT by vivenne (⁹)
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To: CFW

Yep, all these RINOs leaving congress BEFORE the elections was all planned. The GOP will lose the majority, all committees will be shut down and the new Rat majority will do everything they can to disqualify Trump from running. Mark my words.


52 posted on 03/22/2024 12:22:50 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: jacknhoo

Wisconsin is a 49-49 state. Getting any GOP guy elected is tough.


53 posted on 03/22/2024 12:23:18 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: frank ballenger

“ Even so, without a majority who investigates Hunter and his ugly wandering coot of an old man?”

Someone besides the cowardly republicans who’ve had plenty of time but just seem to keep going KAPUT don’t they


54 posted on 03/22/2024 12:23:34 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: cowboyusa

“That’s not going to happen anyway. The D3ms got the bill they wanted already.”


To my disgust, I’m aware of that failure by the party that promised fiscal conservatism if elected, but it was the simplest example I could think of at the time.


55 posted on 03/22/2024 12:25:17 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: linMcHlp

Perfect timing Mike.


56 posted on 03/22/2024 12:25:45 PM PDT by vivenne (⁹)
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To: Codeflier

You make a point. We are so scr*wed.


57 posted on 03/22/2024 12:27:18 PM PDT by vivenne (⁹)
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To: 1Old Pro

The Rats kept Menendez around forever


58 posted on 03/22/2024 12:27:35 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: linMcHlp
So it's clear that not only is Gallagher doing this deliberately, he is doing it to inflict maximum damage on the GOP.

Forgive my language, but it's clear that Gallagher is a closet bisexual: He's a pr--- and a cu-- at the same time!

59 posted on 03/22/2024 12:28:03 PM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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To: CFW

that’s my gop....real team players.....


60 posted on 03/22/2024 12:28:12 PM PDT by cherry
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