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Leroy N. Soetoro
Feb 10, 2024, 7:23:03 PM2/10/24
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congressman-retiring
A Republican congressman who broke with his party colleagues and refused
to vote to impeach Democratic homeland security secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas is retiring from his elected office, he announced Saturday.
The announcement from Wisconsin representative Mike Gallagher that he
won’t run for a fifth term means his time spearheading the US House’s
pushback against the Chinese government will come to an end in early 2025.
Man with beard wearing suit and red tie with a microphone in front of him.
Hospitalized lawmakers showing up for last-minute votes? Not as rare as
you’d think
Read more
Gallagher’s refusal to impeach Mayorkas drew anger from his fellow
Republicans, who have been looking to oust Joe Biden’s homeland security
secretary as a way to punish the president over his administration’s
handling of the US-Mexico border crisis.
A House impeachment vote Tuesday fell just one vote short. Gallagher was
one of three Republicans who opposed impeachment.
His fellow Republicans surrounded him on the House floor in an attempt to
change his mind, but he refused to switch his vote.
Record numbers of people have been arriving at the southern border as they
flee countries around the globe. Many claim asylum and end up in US cities
that are ill-prepared to provide for them while they await court
proceedings. The issue is a potent line of attack for Donald Trump as he
works toward retaking the presidency from Biden in November’s elections.
Gallagher wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion column published after
the vote that impeachment wouldn’t stop migrants from crossing the border
and would set a precedent that could be used against future Republican
administrations. But the impeachment vote’s failure was a major setback
for Republicans.
Party officials in Wisconsin in recent days mulled whether Gallagher
should face a primary challenger.
Gallagher did not mention the impeachment vote in a statement announcing
his retirement, saying only that he doesn’t want to grow old in
Washington.
“Electoral politics was never supposed to be a career and, trust me,
Congress is no place to grow old,” Gallagher said. “And so, with a heavy
heart, I have decided not to run for re-election.”
He told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the backlash over the
impeachment vote did not play a role in his decision.
“I feel, honestly, like people get it, and they can accept the fact that
they don’t have to agree with you 100%,” he told the newspaper, adding
later in the interview: “The news cycle is so short that I just don’t
think that stuff lasts.”
Gallagher, a former Marine who grew up in Green Bay, has represented
north-eastern Wisconsin in Congress since 2017. He spent last year leading
a new House committee dedicated to countering China.
During the committee’s first hearing, he framed the competition between
the US and China as “an existential struggle over what life will look like
in the 21st century”.
Tensions between the US and China have been high for years. Both sides
enacted tariffs on imports during Trump’s presidency. Beijing’s opaque
response to Covid-19, aggression toward Taiwan and the discovery of a
possible spy balloon floating across the US only intensified lawmakers’
intent to do more to block China’s government.
Gallagher was one of the highest-profile Republicans considering a run for
the US Senate this year against incumbent Wisconsin Democrat Tammy
Baldwin. But he abandoned the idea in June, saying he wanted to focus on
China during his fourth term in Congress.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
congressman-retiring
A Republican congressman who broke with his party colleagues and refused
to vote to impeach Democratic homeland security secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas is retiring from his elected office, he announced Saturday.
The announcement from Wisconsin representative Mike Gallagher that he
won’t run for a fifth term means his time spearheading the US House’s
pushback against the Chinese government will come to an end in early 2025.
Man with beard wearing suit and red tie with a microphone in front of him.
Hospitalized lawmakers showing up for last-minute votes? Not as rare as
you’d think
Read more
Gallagher’s refusal to impeach Mayorkas drew anger from his fellow
Republicans, who have been looking to oust Joe Biden’s homeland security
secretary as a way to punish the president over his administration’s
handling of the US-Mexico border crisis.
A House impeachment vote Tuesday fell just one vote short. Gallagher was
one of three Republicans who opposed impeachment.
His fellow Republicans surrounded him on the House floor in an attempt to
change his mind, but he refused to switch his vote.
Record numbers of people have been arriving at the southern border as they
flee countries around the globe. Many claim asylum and end up in US cities
that are ill-prepared to provide for them while they await court
proceedings. The issue is a potent line of attack for Donald Trump as he
works toward retaking the presidency from Biden in November’s elections.
Gallagher wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion column published after
the vote that impeachment wouldn’t stop migrants from crossing the border
and would set a precedent that could be used against future Republican
administrations. But the impeachment vote’s failure was a major setback
for Republicans.
Party officials in Wisconsin in recent days mulled whether Gallagher
should face a primary challenger.
Gallagher did not mention the impeachment vote in a statement announcing
his retirement, saying only that he doesn’t want to grow old in
Washington.
“Electoral politics was never supposed to be a career and, trust me,
Congress is no place to grow old,” Gallagher said. “And so, with a heavy
heart, I have decided not to run for re-election.”
He told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the backlash over the
impeachment vote did not play a role in his decision.
“I feel, honestly, like people get it, and they can accept the fact that
they don’t have to agree with you 100%,” he told the newspaper, adding
later in the interview: “The news cycle is so short that I just don’t
think that stuff lasts.”
Gallagher, a former Marine who grew up in Green Bay, has represented
north-eastern Wisconsin in Congress since 2017. He spent last year leading
a new House committee dedicated to countering China.
During the committee’s first hearing, he framed the competition between
the US and China as “an existential struggle over what life will look like
in the 21st century”.
Tensions between the US and China have been high for years. Both sides
enacted tariffs on imports during Trump’s presidency. Beijing’s opaque
response to Covid-19, aggression toward Taiwan and the discovery of a
possible spy balloon floating across the US only intensified lawmakers’
intent to do more to block China’s government.
Gallagher was one of the highest-profile Republicans considering a run for
the US Senate this year against incumbent Wisconsin Democrat Tammy
Baldwin. But he abandoned the idea in June, saying he wanted to focus on
China during his fourth term in Congress.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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