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The House Republican majority just got reduced to a perilously slim one-vote margin thanks to a Democrat’s victory in Texas over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Speaker Mike Johnson,<\/a> R-La., swore in newly minted Rep. Christian Menefee, D-Texas, on Monday evening, bringing the overall House of Representatives margin to 218 Republicans and 214 Democrats.<\/p>\n

That means if a bill gets no Democratic support and the House is in full attendance, losing more than one GOP vote will result in a 216-216 tie \u2014 meaning it would fail to pass.<\/p>\n

DEMOCRATIC TAKEOVER FEARS SOAR AS HOUSE REPUBLICANS CLING TO FRAGILE MAJORITY<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Johnson is no stranger to dealing with slim margins and has eked out significant GOP victories while dealing with majorities between two and three seats.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But this is a particularly difficult week for House GOP leaders who are scrambling to end an ongoing partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n

The House is expected to vote on a funding compromise hashed out between Senate Democrats and the White House sometime on Tuesday, and Republicans will need nearly everyone in lockstep for the legislation to survive a chamber-wide “rule vote.”<\/p>\n

Rule votes are procedural hurdles that traditionally fall along partisan lines.<\/p>\n

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: HOUSE EXODUS THREATENS JOHNSON’S GRIP ON POWER AS OVER 40 MEMBERS HEAD FOR EXIT<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Menefee, a former attorney for Houston’s Harris County, won a special congressional election in a left-leaning district in Texas that<\/u><\/a> has been vacant for nearly a year.<\/p>\n

He’s replacing the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Texas, who died while in office in March 2025.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press reported that Menefee defeated former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards, a fellow Democrat, in Saturday’s runoff election to fill the seat left vacant when Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died last March.<\/p>\n

Sylvester, a former longtime state lawmaker, served two terms as Houston mayor before winning election to Congress in 2024 to fill the seat of the late longtime Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.<\/p>\n

While Texas has redrawn its congressional maps for the 2026 midterms, as part of the high-stakes redistricting battle between President Donald Trump<\/u><\/a> and Republicans versus Democrats, the special election used the state’s current district lines.<\/p>\n

The addition of another lawmaker into the House Democrats’ ranks will give Republican leadership in the chamber further headaches.<\/p>\n

And House GOP leaders are painfully aware of the politically difficult situation they’re in.<\/p>\n

“They’d better be here,” Johnson said of his Republican members last month. “I told everybody, and not in jest, I said, no adventure sports, no risk-taking, take your vitamins. Stay healthy and be here.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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