WASHINGTON — The Wisconsin congressional delegation is losing Mike Gallagher. The Green Bay Republican announced his resignation mid-term, effective April 19. Gallagher, a scholar on foreign affairs, has chaired the House Select Committee on China. His disgust with the disruptive Trump faction in he House was no secret. In fact, he had said he probably would boycott the GOP national convention in Milwaukee, in his home state, where Trump already has sufficient support to be nominated for president. Gallagher’s resignation came as the Triump faction stepped up its disruptive practices and threatened to dethrone House Speaker Mike Johnson for negotiating a budget compromise with Democrats to avoid a shutdown of the Defense Department and other federal agencies. A political analyst, Mordecai Lee at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, told Wisconsin Public Radio that Gallagher had been “frustrated by Congress as much as he’s been satisfied.”
Gallagher. First elected in 2016, always by large margins — 52%, 63%, 64% and 72%
Gallagher profile
Gallagher holds a degree in international relations Princeton University. He served seven years in the. Marines the Al Anbar province in Iraq. He also had counterintelligence assignments at Central Command on Middle East and Central Asia strategy. He has a doctoral dissertation in political science and international government relations in progress at Georgetown. Gallagher has been called fastest member of Congress: He’s a distance runner.