NEW DELHI: After a series of resignations from the House Republican Conference, a veteran GOP strategist Doug Heye termed the Congress a “bad workplace“, adding that the members were “not happy”.
Speaking to the Fox News Digital, Heye said, “It just reflects how Congress has just become a bad workplace. And when you talk to members, they’re not happy.”
The comments come in the light of a number of leaders announcing their resignation.
Patrick McHenry, the financial services chairman from North Carolina, disclosed his decision to step down in December after serving 10 terms in Congress.
This month witnessed the announcements of retirement from prominent figures like Cathy McMorris Rodgers, chairwoman of the energy and commerce committee from Washington; Mark Green, chairman of the homeland security committee from Tennessee; and Mike Gallagher, chairman of the China select committee from Wisconsin, Fox News reported.
Noting that he was “not surprised” by McHenry’s exit, Heye found Rodgers’ and Gallagher’s departures “shockers.”
“[Rodgers] had time to go still as chair. People typically don’t leave their committee if they have time to go. Gallagher was certainly seen as a real up-and-comer,” he said.
According to John Feehery, a partner at EFB Advocacy who previously worked for ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert, some of the top Republicans leaving are unlikely to be enthusiastic about the possibility of working under another Trump administration, but their replacements in the House are likely to be.
“I think the political implications now are that there were a lot of members who probably weren’t all in on MAGA, and their successors are going to be, I think, much more solidly pro-Trump,” Feehery said.
House Republicans have struggled to present a united front for much of the 118th Congress, owing to their razor-thin majority.
Dismissing these concerns, chairman Green said, “If Republicans are in the minority next year, I’m confident they will continue to do their best to protect the American people from the swamp, but I know from experience that this is difficult to do in the minority.”
Speaking to the Fox News Digital, Heye said, “It just reflects how Congress has just become a bad workplace. And when you talk to members, they’re not happy.”
The comments come in the light of a number of leaders announcing their resignation.
Patrick McHenry, the financial services chairman from North Carolina, disclosed his decision to step down in December after serving 10 terms in Congress.
This month witnessed the announcements of retirement from prominent figures like Cathy McMorris Rodgers, chairwoman of the energy and commerce committee from Washington; Mark Green, chairman of the homeland security committee from Tennessee; and Mike Gallagher, chairman of the China select committee from Wisconsin, Fox News reported.
Noting that he was “not surprised” by McHenry’s exit, Heye found Rodgers’ and Gallagher’s departures “shockers.”
“[Rodgers] had time to go still as chair. People typically don’t leave their committee if they have time to go. Gallagher was certainly seen as a real up-and-comer,” he said.
According to John Feehery, a partner at EFB Advocacy who previously worked for ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert, some of the top Republicans leaving are unlikely to be enthusiastic about the possibility of working under another Trump administration, but their replacements in the House are likely to be.
“I think the political implications now are that there were a lot of members who probably weren’t all in on MAGA, and their successors are going to be, I think, much more solidly pro-Trump,” Feehery said.
House Republicans have struggled to present a united front for much of the 118th Congress, owing to their razor-thin majority.
Dismissing these concerns, chairman Green said, “If Republicans are in the minority next year, I’m confident they will continue to do their best to protect the American people from the swamp, but I know from experience that this is difficult to do in the minority.”