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House Speaker Mike Johnson gained a sliver of breathing room after Republican Matt Van Epps was sworn in from Tennessee’s Seventh District, shifting the House to 220 Republicans and 213 Democrats with two vacancies. Johnson can now lose up to three GOP votes on party-line measures, though the edge may be short lived with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene set to resign in early January and other special elections looming in Texas and New Jersey. The razor-thin margin has repeatedly complicated Republicans’ efforts, even as they passed Trump’s tax and spending cuts in July with two GOP defections.

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