Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., holds the gavel onstage up of the commencement of the archetypal time of the Republican National Convention astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024.
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Republicans volition support power of the House of Representatives, NBC News projected Wednesday.
The projection comes a week aft President-elect Donald Trump, a Republican, claimed a decisive triumph against Vice President Kamala Harris successful the statesmanlike predetermination and the GOP gained bulk power of the Senate.
Going into the election, House Republicans aimed to grow their razor-thin majority of 220 seats, compared to the 212 held by Democrats.
That threadbare GOP bulk gave Democrats precocious hopes to flip the chamber. They needed to summation a nett of conscionable 4 seats to prehend backmost control, due to the fact that the vacancies permission the enclosure with less than 435 full votes.
Democrats outraised their Republican rivals successful each but 1 of the 26 House races rated to beryllium a "toss-up" by the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, according to an NBC News investigation of October run concern data. Democrats besides outspent Republicans successful important races from July done September.
Despite the monolithic fundraising effort, Democrats failed to summation the 218 seats needed for power of the House.
In Pennsylvania's 8th Congressional District, Republican Rob Bresnahan unseated incumbent Democratic Rep. Matt Cartwright, and successful the state's 7th District, Republican Ryan Mackenzie defeated incumbent Democratic Rep. Susan Wild, 2 peculiarly competitory races.
In the battleground authorities of Michigan, Republican Tom Barret grabbed an unfastened spot successful the 7th Congressional District that formerly belonged to Democrat Elissa Slotkin, who declared triumph successful her Michigan Senate race.
The one-party-controlled Congress volition person an abundance of cardinal issues to legislate, including whether to widen the $3.3 trillion Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, overmuch of which is acceptable to expire adjacent year. Trump signed the archetypal measure into instrumentality successful 2017 and has said helium wants to not lone widen the taxation breaks, but besides prosecute deeper cuts.
Also on pat for Congress is the hold of enhanced subsidies nether erstwhile President Barack Obama's signature Affordable Care Act, which expire astatine the extremity of 2025. A indebtedness ceiling combat is besides coming up.
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