Republicans In Danger Of LOSING Their House Majority

The Republican Party has a wafer-thin majority in the House of Representatives, and that majority appears to already be shrinking. Matt Gaetz has said that he will NOT be returning to Congress, so that shrinks their 5-seat majority by one, Elise Stefanik is joining the Trump administration, so there’s 2, and this week Republican Representative Victoria Spartz announced that she won’t be caucusing with Republicans anymore, so that could be 3. This could easily shift control of the House, or at least shift the speakership to the Democrats, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

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The Republican party is already watching as their slim house majority for the next congressional session that begins in early January. Um, it's growing even thinner. Here's what's happening this week on Monday, Republican representative Victoria Sparts from Indiana announced on social media that while she is going to remain a registered Republican, she is no longer going to serve on any committees and she will not be caucusing with the Republican party. Now, that of course, has sent shockwaves through the Republican party because they know that they can only afford to lose three votes on literally any issue for the next two years. Three votes is all they can lose, and they may have just lost one, taking it down to two. But okay, you got two. Obviously you can still do things right? Well, not exactly because Donald Trump is so dumb that he has decided to appoint multiple different Republican members of Congress to serve in his administration, several of whom have already filed their paperwork to officially resign one of them, of course, being Matt Gaetz.

So in order to replace those seats, which I believe there's four members of Congress by the way, that Donald Trump has decided to put in his cabinet or in Matt Gaetz's case resign, um, yeah, that kills you. That means Republicans cannot afford to lose a single person on any given vote until those seats are filled. But you may be saying, well, Faron, these are deep red districts. Obviously they're gonna be replaced by Republicans. Sure they are. Sure. Do you know how long it takes to get special elections up and running in the state of Florida? Matt Gaetz, obviously he was the first one to resign. So DeSantis is like, all right, I gotta schedule stuff. I actually have to do it for Florida's first congressional district and the sixth Congressional district. Um, so he did schedule, and on January 28th, we are going to hold the primaries, the primary votes for those special elections.

The special general election will not take place until April 1st. A very fitting date to elect more Republican jokesters to Congress, right? So until April, the house seat from my district will be open. It will eventually be held by a Republican, but that is going to be one less Republican in that body for four months. Folks, that's a problem for the Republicans. The other Republicans that are resigning to get into Trump's administration, those governors have not even set the dates yet. So we could be looking at June or July before the Republicans get their majority back. And what can happen in that interim period?

Well, we know first and foremost, you gotta elect a house speaker. And if you guys are already down one or two votes, which you will be, you can't afford a single Republican to dissent. Not one house speaker is chosen by simple majority. So if all the Democrats are in unison with who they vote for, and you get two Republicans voting against their pick oopsie, we suddenly have a Democratic speaker of the house with a Republican majority. So yeah, things are pretty bad. Donald Trump has obviously made them worse and the next few months, while not good for the country, are definitely going to be pretty hilarious.