The Republicans succeeded in grabbing a slim majority in the US House of Representatives, which guarantees them opposition to President Joe Biden's work program, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced - Thursday evening - that she will not run for any leadership position in the next Congress.
The Republicans' narrow majority in the House of Representatives will be much less than the party had hoped, and the Republicans also failed to win a majority in the Senate after a disappointing performance in the mid-term elections on the eighth of November.
NBC and CNN predicted that the Republicans would win no fewer than 218 seats in the 435-member House of Representatives, which is the number required to achieve a majority.
This came a week after millions of Americans went to the polls to cast their votes in the midterm elections, which usually send a message of rejection to the party that controls the White House.
President Joe Biden has expressed his willingness to work with House Republicans to deliver results for working American families.
After announcing the results of the expectations, the leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, said - in a tweet - that the Americans are ready for a new direction, and the Republicans in the House of Representatives are ready to achieve this.
And after McCarthy won - last Tuesday - the majority of Republicans in a secret ballot of his party's deputies, he is in a prime position to be elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, to replace Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
In light of the high inflation rates and the collapse of Biden's popularity, the Republicans hoped to see a "red wave" sweeping across America, to take control of both chambers in order to abort Biden's legislative plans.
Instead, Democrats rushed to the polls while motivated by issues they consider key, such as the Supreme Court's decision to overturn laws that allow abortion, and fear of extremist Trump-backed candidates rejecting the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The Biden party was able to snatch a major seat from the Republicans in the Senate in Pennsylvania, in addition to retaining two other seats in the states of Arizona and Nevada, which gave it an impenetrable majority of 50 seats, in addition to the decisive vote of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Retirement of positions
For her part, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, announced Thursday her intention to give up the leadership of the Democrats in the next House emanating from the last elections.
Pelosi, 82, remains the first woman speaker of the House of Representatives, and her decision to step down from the Democratic leadership marks a watershed moment for the party as it prepares to elect its new top leaders the week after Thanksgiving.
Pelosi said - in a speech inside the House of Representatives - that she would not seek a leadership position for the Democrats, but would remain a member of Congress.
"For me, the time has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic bloc, for which I have great respect, and I am grateful that so many are ready to shoulder this enormous responsibility," she added.
US President Joe Biden praised Pelosi, stressing - in a statement - that she protected our democracy from the violent and bloody rebellion on January 6, stressing that she is the most important Speaker of the House of Representatives in the history of the United States.