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Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plans are expected to cause a ripple effect as Democrats prepare to become the minority party in the House of Representatives.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will discuss her upcoming objectives with fellow lawmakers on Thursday after Democrats barely lost control of the House to Republicans in the recent midterm elections.
It was widely expected that Pelosi will decide whether to run for re-election as the Democratic leader or to resign, as reported by Kold News13. It would come after the party stopped a Republican wave in the House and Senate and after an intruder brutally attacked her husband, Paul, in their San Francisco home.
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According to Nancy Pelosi's spokesperson, Drew Hammill, the Speaker will tell her colleagues about her "future plans" and will deliver remarks from the House Floor around 12:10 pm ET. On Twitter, he remarked that the speaker had two versions of her speech.
.@SpeakerPelosi will open the House today at Noon. During one minute speeches, Speaker Pelosi will deliver remarks to her colleagues from the House Floor at approximately 12:10 p.m. E.T.
— Drew Hammill (@Drew_Hammill) November 17, 2022
The California Democrat is a major player in American politics since she became the first woman to ever hold the speakership.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's declaration may trigger a domino effect in the House Democratic administration before internal party polls next month as Democrats transition to becoming the minority party in US Congress.
Nancy Pelosi's team has always consisted of three people: Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland, Democratic Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina, and Pelosi herself.
Even Hoyer and Clyburn are weighing their options right now as the three senior Democratic leaders in the House are in their 80s, and they've had to deal with pressure from younger legislators to retire. Speaker Nancy Pelosi made the announcement after Republicans won the 218th seat required to wrest control of the House from Democrats.
The GOP is on course to build the party's smallest majority of the 21st century. In 2001, Republicans held a nine-seat majority, 221-212 plus two independents, AP News reported. Far short of the sweeping win the GOP projected coming into the 2022 US midterm elections, the Republicans sought to redefine the agenda on Capitol Hill by focusing on economic difficulties and Biden's waning appeal.
Democrats, on the other hand, showed remarkable resiliency, keeping their moderate, suburban seats in states like Virginia, Minnesota, and Kansas. The midterm election results might hamper House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy's efforts to become speaker.There have been renewed attempts to unseat the Republican leadership in the House because of the possibility of a narrow majority.
As the current Republican leader, California's Rep. Kevin McCarthy has been met with an outcry of resistance from within his ranks over the possibility of his ascension to speaker. He obtained his caucus' nomination for speaker on Tuesday, but he still has to garner more traction before the vote in January.
GOP House Control to Challenge Biden's Leadership
As Republicans strive to bring him down before the 2024 presidential race, President Joe Biden will be compelled to haggle with whoever triumphs in the Republican leadership contest, which could lead to conflicts over funding for the government and assistance to Ukraine, as per NBC News.
On Wednesday night, President Biden issued a statement in which he congratulated Rep. McCarthy on the party's victory and pledged to work with the new majority to benefit middle-class Americans. However, the new Republican majority's small size means party leaders will be constrained by the requirement to obtain near-unanimous backing from their caucus.
It is a situation similar to what most of President Barack Obama's administration was like when Joe Biden was the vice president. Like Biden, Obama took office with Democrats in control of Congress, but Republicans captured the House during his first midterms.
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