Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher, one of three House Republicans to vote against impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last week, has announced that he will not seek re-election.
“Eight years ago, when I first ran for Congress, I promised to treat my time in office as a high-intensity deployment,” Gallagher, who will retire in January 2025 after his fourth term, said in a statement Saturday.
“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,” he said.
“But the Framers intended citizens to serve in Congress for a season and then return to their private lives. Electoral politics was never supposed to be a career and, trust me, Congress is no place to grow old,” the rep said.
