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A MASS EXODUS is consuming Congress, and the latest high-profile escapee is a GOP kingmaker who HELD THE NATION’S PURSE STRINGS. Rep. Vern Buchanan, a 20-year veteran and powerful member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, is FLEEING Capitol Hill, sparking fears of a TOTAL COLLAPSE in legislative stability. This is NOT a peaceful retirement—it’s a DAMNING INDICTMENT of a broken Washington.
Buchanan’s sudden departure marks the 28th Republican to join a STAMPEDE FOR THE EXITS, with Democrats also abandoning ship in droves. This isn’t coincidence; it’s a coordinated WITHDRAWAL by those who know the system is UNTENABLE. What do these insiders know that YOU DON’T? The timing is SUSPECT, coming as Republicans prepare to ram through a SECOND “Big, Beautiful Bill” with sweeping financial powers—a bill Buchanan could have shaped but is now ABANDONING.
His polite statement about “passing the torch” is a SHAM. This is a veteran lawmaker, who spent DECADES controlling America’s tax and health policy, suddenly cutting and running. It reveals a DEEPER SICKNESS within the halls of power. Are these retirements a silent protest against looming political carnage or a COWARDLY RETREAT from the coming fiscal battles they themselves created?
The so-called “solid” Republican seat he leaves behind is now a VULNERABLE WEAK SPOT in the GOP’s razor-thin majority, setting the stage for potential CHAOS in the 2026 midterms. As insiders like Buchanan cash out and leave, they leave American taxpayers HOLDING THE BAG for a crumbling nation. The quiet ones leaving Washington aren’t retiring—they’re RESIGNING from a reality they no longer dare to face.



