“这确实是个问题，”一名众议院共和党人告诉福克斯新闻数字频道
作者：伊丽莎白·埃尔金德
福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年3月10日 美国东部时间上午6:00
随着选举季临近，一些众议院共和党人开始担忧同僚在初选中失利后可能选择“沉默离职”（quiet-quitting），这将可能削弱共和党本就岌岌可危的微弱多数优势。
在本周佐治亚州一个深红选区的补选之后，众议院共和党人在任何涉及党派立场的法案上可能最多只能失去两票优势。
然而，一些共和党人表示，他们担心如果同僚们在竞选更高职位的野心未能如计划般实现，他们可能会在任期结束前开始缺席关键投票。
“这确实是个问题，”一名为能坦诚发言而要求匿名的众议院共和党人向福克斯新闻数字频道表示，“会不会有人因为要参加决选而缺席？会不会有人因为赌气干脆不回来了？会不会有人因为初选失利就不再回来履职？”
民主党人因共和党零票优势而虎视眈眈 政府停摆危机与移民改革僵局
（配图说明：2025年11月4日，美国众议院议长、共和党人迈克·约翰逊（R-La.）与其他众议院共和党领袖穿过美国国会大厦国家雕像厅，前往其关于美国政府停摆的日常新闻发布会。）（比尔·克拉克/国会新闻图片社 via 盖蒂图片社）
当被问及此类缺席是否会导致共和党失去众议院实际控制权时，该共和党议员表示：“有可能，这就是为什么大家都对此感到紧张。”
仅在孤星州（得克萨斯州），上周初选中就已有两名共和党众议员确定将在下年卸任。共和党众议员韦斯利·亨特（R-Texas）试图挑战得克萨斯州共和党参议员约翰·科宁的席位，但以失败告终，后者将与州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿进入决选。此外，共和党众议员丹·克伦肖（R-Texas）在初选中意外输给了保守派州议员史蒂夫·托特，后者是其右翼挑战者。
两人均未表明会因失利而缺席任期剩余时间的众议院投票，但亨特的出席记录已引起同僚不满。
除此之外，目前还有18名其他众议院共和党人正在角逐即将举行的初选和大选不同职位。
众议院拨款委员会高级成员、佛罗里达州共和党众议员马里奥·迪亚兹-巴拉特（R-Fla.）向福克斯新闻数字频道表示，他也对大选季期间共和党人的出席情况感到担忧。
“我们的优势已经薄如蝉翼，所以我们需要所有人都到场，”他说，“所以，这确实可能成为一个问题。我希望不是这样。”
南卡罗来纳州共和党众议员罗素·弗莱（R-S.C.）向福克斯新闻数字频道表示：“我认为这是个值得关注的问题。”
众议院共和党人微弱多数威胁特朗普国会议程
（配图说明：2026年2月17日，共和党得克萨斯州众议员、美国参议院候选人韦斯利·亨特在得克萨斯州汤姆球市桑德伍德庄园的提前投票启动活动中发言。）（马克·费利克斯/彭博新闻社 via 盖蒂图片社）
“我希望他们能认清当下的局势。本届国会仍有很大的作为空间，民众信任他们的民选代表能够完成使命。所以他们必须留在这里履职，”弗莱说。
但选举季的开始并非本届国会（甚至今年）首次出现共和党人对其多数优势的担忧。
例如，一小部分共和党人曾与民主党人联合，成功推动对已到期的奥巴马医改补贴延期的投票，而这一政策本是共和党人普遍反对的。就在上个月，唐纳德·特朗普总统的关税策略也遭遇公开挫折，同样是一小部分共和党议员与民主党人投票反对了该策略。
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这两项法案在共和党主导的参议院中都不太可能被重新审议，但这也证明了路易斯安那州共和党人议长迈克·约翰逊所面临的微薄优势。
除了今年早些时候出现的立法挫折外，一名众议院共和党人的突然悲剧性死亡和另一名议员的突然辞职，进一步削弱了共和党在众议院的席位数量。
（配图说明：2025年11月5日，美国众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯（左）与众议院议长迈克·约翰逊在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦的新闻发布会上发言。）（丹尼尔·休尔/彭博新闻社 via 盖蒂图片社）
车祸和其他健康问题也时常迫使众议院调整日程。这促使众议院共和党领袖警告其议员在华盛顿以外活动时务必谨慎。
“优势真的非常接近。前几天我们几个人在车里，要是出了事故，那可能就会改变权力格局，”蒙大拿州共和党众议员瑞安·津克（R-Mont.）在今年1月向福克斯新闻数字频道表示，“在非常规选举周期内发生人事变动是个大问题。”
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众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯（R-La.）上周告诉记者，出席率“始终是个问题”，但他对克服这一问题持乐观态度。
“我们在过程中经历了多次选举，但仍能推进我们的议程，”斯卡利斯表示，“我们会提前了解有议员要接受手术，然后围绕这些情况进行工作安排。但最终，我们还是能够推进特朗普总统的议程和我们的议程，为美国民众完成我们竞选时承诺的任务。”
伊丽莎白·埃尔金德是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治记者，主要报道众议院动态。此前曾在《每日邮报》和哥伦比亚广播公司新闻网发表数字报道。
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House GOP fears primary losers could jeopardize razor-thin majority
‘It’s a real problem,’ one House Republican tells Fox News Digital
By Elizabeth Elkind
Fox News
Published March 10, 2026 6:00am EDT
Some House Republicans are getting worried over the prospect of colleagues quiet-quitting after losing their primary races as election season heats up, threatening to whittle down the GOP’s already perilously slim majority.
House Republicans will likely only be able to lose two votes on any party-line measure after a special election in a deep-red Georgia district this week.
Some told Fox News Digital they’re worried, however, that their colleagues could begin missing key votes before the end of their terms if their ambitions for higher office do not go as planned.
“It’s a real problem,” one House Republican who was granted anonymity to speak candidly told Fox News Digital. “Is one of them going to be gone for his runoff? Will another not come back at all because he’s mad? Is another one not going to come back because he lost?”
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and other House GOP leaders walk through National Statuary Hall to his daily news conference on the government shutdown in the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 4, 2025.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Asked if such absences could translate to Republicans losing a functional majority in the House, that GOP lawmaker said, “We could, that’s why everybody’s nervous about it.”
In the Lone Star State alone, two House Republicans are guaranteed not to be returning next year after last week’s primaries. Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, lost his bid to unseat Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who is headed for a runoff with state Attorney General Ken Paxton. And Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, faced an upset against a primary challenger running to his right, conservative state lawmaker Steve Toth.
Neither has indicated they will be skipping House votes for the remainder of the term due to those losses, but Hunt’s attendance record has already generated frustration among his colleagues.
Aside from them, there are 18 other House Republicans currently vying for different positions in upcoming primaries and general elections.
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., a high-ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, told Fox News Digital that he too was worried about GOP attendance as election season heats up.
“Our margins are as razor-thin as they can possibly be, so we need everybody to show up,” he said. “So yeah, that could potentially be an issue. I hope it isn’t.”
Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital, “I think it’s a concern.”
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Rep. Wesley Hunt, a Republican from Texas and U.S. Senate candidate, speaks during an early voting kickoff event at Sandlewood Manor in Tomball, Texas, Feb. 17, 2026.(Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“I hope that they recognize the moment. There’s still a lot of lane left in this Congress, and people have put their faith in their elected representatives to get the job done. So they need to be here,” Fry said.
But the election season starting up is not the first time this Congress — or even this year — that worries about the GOP’s margins have flared up.
For example, a small group of Republicans was able to join with Democrats to successfully force a vote on extending expired Obamacare subsidies that the GOP largely opposed. And just last month, President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy faced a public setback when a similarly small number of GOP lawmakers voted with Democrats to rebuke it.
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Neither of those measures will likely be taken up in the Republican-held Senate, but it’s a testament to the slim margins Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is presiding over.
And aside from the legislative setbacks seen earlier this year, the sudden, tragic death of one House Republican and abrupt resignation of another have served to further whittle down the conference’s numbers.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, left, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, speak during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Nov. 5, 2025.(Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Car accidents and other health problems have also at times forced the House to amend its schedule. It’s prompted House GOP leaders to warn their lawmakers to be as cautious as possible when outside of Washington.
“The margins are really, really close. A few of us were in a car the other day, driving … if that became an accident, that would have tipped the scale,” Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., told Fox News Digital back in January. “It’s a big deal to change power outside of a normal election cycle.”
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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told reporters last week that attendance is “always a concern” but was optimistic about navigating through it.
“We’ve had elections along the way, and yet we’re still able to move our agenda,” Scalise said. “We track people that have surgeries, tell us in advance, and we work around that. But at the end of the day, we’ve been able to move President Trump’s agenda and our agenda, and get the things done for the American people that we ran on.”
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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