The Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives has shrunk after Rep. Christian Menefee (D-Texas) was sworn into the body on Feb. 2.
Menefee won a special election to Congress on Jan. 31 in Texas’s 18th congressional district after the previous officeholder, Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas), died in office on March 5, 2025. Menefee’s entry to the House brings the Democratic Caucus to 214 members, which gives the Republican Conference of 218 members a one-seat majority in a body of 432 members.
