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“This is really terrifying,” Nathalie Loiseau, former French Europe minister under President Emmanuel Macron and now a lawmaker in the European Parliament's Renew Europe group, posted on X.

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, a German lawmaker who leads the European Parliament’s subcommittee on security and defense, is preparing for the worst.

Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride became the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, Aime Wichtendahl won a spot to become Iowa’s first trans lawmaker, and Zooey Zephyr, who has advocated to defend youth access to gender-affirming care, was reelected to the Montana House.

One lawmaker who said he “absolutely” wants to see the House report was Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, a high-ranking Republican member of the Judiciary Committee who ran against Thune for majority leader.

But on Wednesday evening, Johnson said Gaetz had resigned as a lawmaker, effectively ending the House probe since the committee only investigates members.