Republican Announces Early Retirement, Narrowing GOP Majority in House

Rep. Mike Gallagher is departing in April.

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) delivers remarks to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the White Paper movement in China alongside a group of students and Chinese pro-democracy activists outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Nov. 29, 2023. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Republicans are going to see their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives narrow even further, as Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) is departing Congress soon.

Mr. Gallagher, 40, the chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, became the latest Republican to announce an early retirement, saying on March 22 that he will leave the lower chamber on April 19.