House GOP in chaos as Republicans head for the exits

We have to be ready to govern and we are going to turn this disaster 180 degrees, but we have to go through this difficult valley to get to the other side and it doesn't help that people leave early. My job is to keep this team together so that everyone rows in the same direction so that we can deliver and grow the majority because our mission is to save the country without a Republican majority, we have no hope of achieving it. That's what House Speaker Mike Johnson said, acknowledging his party's challenge. he faces as Republican dysfunction on Capitol Hill continues to drive a wave of retirements in the chambers.

So far, at least 21 House Republicans have decided to leave their jobs this year, a trend that shows signs of a broader decline in morale within the GOP, so why is this happening? difficulties passing legislation, the party's inability to govern and growing fears of maintaining the majority in November after Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher resigns next Friday. Republicans will control 217 seats in the House of Representatives to 213 for Democrats, meaning Republicans can only afford to lose a vote when all members are present of the 21 who are leaving, some have included powerful committee chairs and rising stars within the party, at least five are seeking higher office, while others plan to spend more time with family or pursue other opportunities outside the Capitol and it's not just me, members. of Congress

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ing for the exit, they are also your employees, in a new report, the Congressional Management Foundation found that toxic rhetoric and partisanship have caused half of the top staff on the Hill to consider leaving the Public Service, The survey sums up the sentiment in Washington with just three words citing that Congress is broken, the nonprofit whose stated goal is to improve the effectiveness of lawmakers.

It also found that the desire to get out the door is greatest among Democratic staffers, but also nearly six in 10 Republican staffers said they thought about leaving for their own reasons. the actions of the party, so in many ways it feels like the wheels are falling off the bus because of this extreme partisanship and in terms of problems getting things done, the perfect example is the border agreement, the bipartisan border agreement and you just look at the data Michael BOS just the data shows that this is the least effective Congress in a generation, they are just not getting things done, it is estimated that things will not get done because they have people in their caucus, unlike many members of the committee, president and presidents, women. but there are a lot of people in that Republican group who are interested in the gestures that they are interested in posting on Tik Tock, uh, what they are doing instead of working, you know, uh, I was, um, according to almost all the ratings I was one of the most conservative members of Congress when I was there and every time I walked into the chamber I turned left and went and sat with the Democrats and gained Democratic friends that I still have and we got things done.

I'm just talking about how radically things have changed, especially in the last five six years, they've been getting worse. I mean, my friends there have been telling me they've been getting worse for a while, but talk about how I think this is what Trump monumentally wants. I have come to know that if a Republican talks to a Democrat, Donald Trump is going to tweet at them and you know and say they are communists, they are right and everyone is terrified and I don't want to put you on. at the event this morning, but I have to tell you Joe how many times I have watched this show and wondered if under the current conditions in Congress, if a young idealistic Joe Scarboro would have wanted to run for Congress in 1994 to be in In the middle of all this, no, I don't want an answer.

I'm just telling you, that question has been on my mind and it's not totally in line with what James Madison and the founders wanted, they wanted everyone to figure it out, you know? this was not the British Monarchy they thought that the best policy would come out of great political struggles but at the same time they expected negotiation they expected compromise they even expected friendship such as you demonstrated between members of the House and the Senate who were from different parties and it does not happen and it does not I can't help but think that Donald Trump and the people around him think that they will benefit if the whole system seems broken so if a border agreement is reached that can suggest that Congress works if one is blocked and this does not happen and the border problem gets worse, it allows Trump to say: you know I'm running for strong leadership in a broken system.

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