McCarthy is retiring in a few weeks; he won't be a Congressman in 2024.
This will reduce the GOP "majority" even further to two seats after George Santos was expelled. There's no way that the timing of these two events aren't linked. McCarthy was saying he was going to run for re-election in 2024, but as soon as Santos is expelled, he announces his imminent departure. Weaker of the House Mike Johnson now has no cushion with a caucus that is ungovernable under the best of circumstances.
The realities of a two seat majority means that measures that the Chaos Caucus demands - tanks on the southern border, cutting Medicaid, ending aid for Ukraine - are DOA. In fact, I have zero idea how ANYTHING can get passed, if Johnson tries to do it with Democratic votes.
The GOP is going to give us another year of dysfunction leading into the election.
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