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Home Republican Vern Buchanan broadcasts retirement from Congress

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Last updated: January 27, 2026 4:48 pm
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A longtime Home Republican who sits on Congress’ highly effective tax-writing committee is retiring after 20 years on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., introduced on Tuesday that he won’t be searching for re-election, ending a two-decade-long profession in Washington on the age of 74.

He is the twenty eighth Republican to hitch what seems to be a mass exodus from the Home of Representatives after the present time period. Twenty-one Home Democrats may even not search re-election to the chamber.

Buchanan mentioned in a press release that it was the glory of a lifetime to serve his southwest Florida congressional district.

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Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla, attends a Home Methods and Means Committee markup within the Longworth Home Workplace Constructing, Could 13, 2025. (Invoice Clark/Getty Photos)

“Each achievement value doing started with listening to my constituents and combating for his or her priorities. I got here to Congress to unravel issues, to battle for working households and to assist guarantee this nation stays a spot the place alternative is accessible to everybody prepared to work for it,” Buchanan mentioned.

“After 20 years of service, I imagine it’s the best time to go the torch and start a brand new chapter in my life.”

Buchanan spent practically all of his time in Congress as a member of the Home Methods & Means Committee, a strong panel that oversees quite a lot of points together with tax coverage.

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U.S. Capitol Constructing at sundown on Jan. 30, 2025. (Emma Woodhead/Fox Information Digital)

He was in competition to chair the committee after Republicans retook the Home of Representatives in November 2022 however finally misplaced the gavel to present Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo.

Since then, Buchanan has served because the committee’s vice chair and chairman of its subcommittee on well being.

Earlier than he leaves workplace, he is nonetheless prone to play a key function as Republicans in Congress eye one other “huge, stunning invoice” through the funds reconciliation course of.

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Price range reconciliation permits the get together controlling each the Home and Senate to go large coverage overhauls by dropping the Senate’s requirement for passage to be consistent with the Home’s personal easy majority threshold.

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Whereas the primary invoice was an enormous compilation of President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign guarantees, Republicans are hoping a second spherical would extra narrowly give attention to making Individuals’ lives extra reasonably priced — together with tackling hovering healthcare prices.

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The nonpartisan Prepare dinner Political Report charges Buchanan’s district as solidly Republican, which means it isn’t prone to flip within the 2026 midterms.

However his retirement comes at a time when Home Republicans are anticipated to face an uphill battle to maintain their razor-thin majority for the latter half of Trump’s time period.

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox Information Digital main protection of the Home of Representatives. Earlier digital bylines seen at Every day Mail and CBS Information.

Observe on Twitter at @liz_elkind and ship tricks to elizabeth.elkind@fox.com

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