GOP Congressman Celebrates ‘Three of the Most Volatile People’ Leaving Congress: ‘I Won’t Mention Who Those Names Are, but You Probably Know’

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) expressed optimism about the next session of Congress, Monday, declaring that the Republican Party would “be a little better off” with “three of the most volatile people” gone.

“Republicans have a very ambitious agenda for next year, but the House Republican majority is going to shrink,” noted NewsNation anchor Chris Stirewalt during an interview with Bacon. “With [Matt] Gaetz gone, and Elise Stefanik and Mike Waltz taking jobs in the new Trump administration, Republicans will have 217 votes, the Democrats 215. That by my math is a zero vote margin until special elections can be held. After what we saw in the spending fight, will Republicans be able to deliver on these promises next year?”

Bacon replied:

I do think our House Republicans will be more cohesive than the last Congress because we have three of the most volatile people [who] will not be in it this Congress, and I won’t mention who those names are, but you probably know who they are. So we’re gonna be a little better off, but we’re only gonna have a one seat majority, and we need to have these special elections as soon as we can.

The congressman went on to say that Republicans would “have to have a bipartisan spirit generally in the House and in the Senate” as a result of their small majority and “govern from the center to the right.”

“I think we’ve still got to govern from the center to the right, and not just from the far-right, because the fact is you’re not gonna get those votes in the House or Senate if you try to govern that way,” Bacon argued. “James Madison designed a system that forces consensus building, so you can’t just govern from an extreme position.”

While Bacon did not say which three members of Congress he was specifically referring to, one was almost certainly Matt Gaetz, who resigned from the House last month after being nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as U.S. attorney general.

Gaetz withdrew from the nomination just a week after the announcement after Trump reportedly indicated to Gaetz that he wouldn’t have enough support in the Senate for confirmation.

Watch above via NewsNation.