A 39-year-old GOP congressman who rejected his party’s push to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas won’t run for reelection: ‘Congress is no place to grow old’

• Rep. Mike Gallagher said on Saturday that he wouldn’t seek reelection.
• Gallagher was one of just four House Republicans to vote against the impeachment of Mayorkas.
• The congressman chaired the Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, which was formed last year.

Rep. Mike Gallagher, the 39-year-old Wisconsin lawmaker who has long been viewed as a rising GOP star, won’t seek reelection days after he rejected his party’s push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas .

Gallagher, a Marine Corps veteran and a major force in the House’s efforts to push back against the Chinese government, made the announcement Saturday on X.

“When I first ran for Congress, I promised to treat my time in office as a high-intensity deployment,” he said. “Through my bipartisan work on the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, chairing the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, and chairing the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, we’ve accomplished more on this deployment than I could have ever imagined.”

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