Republicans scraped back control of the House of Representatives, securing a slender majority. It marks a delayed, yet consequential, finish to the 2022 midterm elections.
After more than a week of vote counting, the Republican Party formally captured the 218 House seats needed to claim the majority after just four years out of power.
The slim win for Republicans will reorder the balance of power in Washington and is expected to effectively give the GOP party a veto on President Joe Biden’s agenda for the next two years.
Republicans ended up scraping a victory from a midterm election that many had expected to be a red wave of wins. But that red wave instead turned into more of a trickle. The Democrats kept control of the Senate, and the fight for the House was tight.
The slim majority means any member of the party sitting in the House could stymie legislation for the next two years. The flip carries implications for both parties heading into the final two years of Biden’s first term in the White House.
Hours after they were projected to retake the majority on Wednesday, House Republicans were discussing plans to investigate President Joe Biden and the people around him.
Republicans are already promising a long and growing list of politically fraught investigations into everything from the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan to the overseas business dealings of the president’s youngest son Hunter Biden.
Some Republican representatives have discussed plans to investigate politicization in federal law enforcement. Some say they aim to make it clear it is an investigation into President Biden himself.
House Republican members have threatened to investigate Biden and elements of his administration since early in his presidency. But only starting in January, following their projected retaking of the House majority on Wednesday, will they have the ability to set the agenda for the House and its committees.
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