Overview
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she will retire in 42 days, publishing a manifesto that criticizes President Trump and House Republicans for complacency.
- Punchbowl News reports that several other Republicans are considering midterm departures, with one senior GOP lawmaker describing morale as a tinder box and predicting more early resignations.
- Republicans hold a 219–213 edge that could tighten with a Dec. 2 Tennessee special election and scheduled Democratic replacements in Houston in January and New Jersey in April.
- Speaker Mike Johnson is weighing a rules change to make discharge petitions harder to file as rank-and-file members use the tactic to challenge leadership.
- CIA officials in Mexico City flagged Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s August conduct to Langley; he received a 90-day ban on taxpayer-funded travel and relinquished a cartel task-force role, while Johnson blocked efforts to strip his Intelligence Committee posts and publicly backed him.