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    Johnsons hauchdünne Mehrheit im Repräsentantenhaus schrumpft nach dem Sieg der Demokraten bei der Sonderwahl in New Jersey

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    1. plz-let-me-in on

      With Analilia Mejia’s election, the US House is now 218R-214D, giving Speaker Mike Johnson the slimmest margin for his GOP majority. He can only afford a single GOP defection on party-line votes. Two defections would mean a tie, meaning the vote fails.

      And also, Mejia is a progressive backed by Sanders and the Squad. She supports Medicare for All and abolishing ICE. She’ll be a great voice for her constituents in Congress!

    2. geoffvro on

      Cool, now what reason will Mike Johnson give for not swearing her in right now

    3. dunce_charming on

      Man, pretty soon the Democrats are gunna need more than 1 turncoat each vote to torch liberal policies.

      Won’t they look silly when 3, 4 maybe even 5 Democrats have to vote against the party each time to kill bills that help the working class.

    4. math-yoo on

      These types of margins are what creates your political opportunists who fancy themselves mavericks. No matter the outcome in fall, the lame duck part of the presidency will be chaotic.

    6. CookieDragon678 on

      Would be funny in someone from the republicans force a vote of confidence on the Speaker

    7. sutroheights on

      Hopefully in 7 months, Mike won’t have to worry about this math anymore.

    8. jassi007 on

      Don’t worry, no matter what happens exactly as many Democrats will defect as needed on key votes to keep America fascist.

    9. Ok-Hold-8232 on

      Hardly matters. If Dem leadership doesn’t want something to pass, and they need one vote to kill it, they’ll find one retiring congressman to vote with the republicans.

      If they need two votes, they’ll find two retiring congressmen to vote with the republicans.

      And next year when they have a 40 seat majority in the house, they’ll find 40 safe seats to vote with the republicans.

    10. Answer70 on

      This just means some new Democrat will have to step up to block everything.

    12. BigHungryFlamingo on

      And another hopefully coming in November with a bunch of solid candidates running against piece of shit nepo-baby, Tom Kean Jr.

    13. ActStriking5787 on

      When does the razor finally get bent? i mean we’ve been hearing razor thin for months now yet every time we make up ground another dem breaks rank or drops too. They’re all in on the game seems like

    15. RamblinGamblinWilly on

      How is this a narrowing of the margin when this was a Democrat seat?

    16. TrefoilHat on

      Wow, I was going to write a pithy comment about how it’s getting harder and harder for Jeffries to lose every meaningful vote by 1…

      And then I see that’s the preponderance of the messages here.

      I guess that’s not surprising, just…disappointing.

    17. petrovmendicant on

      The trick is to constantly be in recess and refusing to even take things to a vote they don’t know for sure they’ll win.

      Nothing happening is better than even the slightest win for anyone but the party of Trump.

    18. KlostToMe on

      That margin doesn’t include good ‚ole fetterman voting as an R, I’m sure

    19. smilbandit on

      i’d like for the dems to get majority so we can see which dems are secret gop plants.

    21. Known_Leek8997 on

      Don’t worry there will still be plenty of defectors on the left for important pieces of legislation. 

    22. Idiot_Savant_13 on

      This constant „razor thin“ majority game used to mean something.

      Nowadays, some one or other always crosses the aisle at the last second – it’s just WWE style shenanigans on repeat.

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