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The House GOP majority is hanging by a thread — and political analysts are taking notice.

On Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was dealt yet another blow when Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) became the latest of multiple GOP lawmakers to announce he would not complete his term, instead saying he will resign effective on April 19.

According to a GOP lawmaker speaking to CNN Friday, the months-long Republican effort to impeach President Joe Biden will likely end without a vote because his fellow Republicans "don't have the guts" to follow through.

“Yeah, that’s not gonna happen, but I wish we would vote on it regardless,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said when asked about the status of the impeachment effort.

Fox News did more than practically any other organization to goad House Republicans into launching an impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden — and now that the project is falling apart, it's throwing the same lawmakers under the bus, argued Media Matters' Matt Gertz for MSNBC.

The investigation centered on theories that Biden laundered international bribes through the foreign business dealings of his son Hunter but, despite a long series of hearings held by the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, no hard evidence has been found. The most recent hearing, featuring Hunter Biden's former business partner Tony Bobulinski as the GOP's star witness, went completely off the rails.

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) will resign from his position next month and leave the Republican's House majority "hanging by a thread," according to his press team and reports.

Gallagher, 40, made the unusual mid-term announcement Friday on X, where he disclosed his last day serving Wisconsin's Eighth Congressional district will be April 19.

Donald Trump has until Monday to find a $454 million bond in his New York fraud judgment or face Attorney General Letitia James swooping in to seize his assets – and an expert said Friday he's desperate to stop that happening.

Trump's lawyers claimed this week that finding the money to cover the judgment while he appeals it is a “practical impossibility," even though the former president took to Truth Social Friday and claimed he has almost $500 million in cash.

A Republican congressman fighting to keep his vulnerable seat in Nebraska quietly deleted a portion of his website that bragged about his anti-abortion bonafides — signaling just how potentially harmful the GOP's current stance on abortion can be to its own party, a report stated Friday.

The section on Don Bacon's website declared that he “will always fight to defend the right to life.” Also deleted from the website were the perfect ratings he received from anti-abortion organizations like the Susan B. Anthony List, National Right to Life, and the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) sparked yet more turmoil in the House of Representatives on Friday when she filed a motion to vacate the chair of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

However, CNN's Manu Raju reports that there's a good reason to believe that Johnson will not suffer the same fate as his predecessor, former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) — largely because House Democrats are signaling that they'll bail him out.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has been criticized for the pace of the Department of Justice's investigation into Donald Trump's effort to overturn his election loss — and a new deep dive report shows he was often frustrated himself with its pace.

Garland gathered his closest aides after he was sworn into office in March 2021 to discuss the possibility that evidence from the Jan. 6 investigation could point to criminal activity by the former president and his inner circle, but at that time it was “simply inconceivable" that Trump would recover politically so the attorney general proceeded with extreme caution, reported the New York Times.

NBC News was hit with widespread criticism for hiring former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel as a commentator.

McDaniel will make her debut Sunday on "Meet the Press," and she will appear on both NBC and its left-leaning MSNBC cable network whose hosts she decried as "primetime propagandists" less than a year ago, reported the New York Times.

Conservative commentator and sometimes-pusher of antisemitic conspiracy theories, Candace Owens, has been fired from her role at the Daily Wire, according to a post to X by the outlet's co-founder Jeremy Boreing.

"Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship," Boreing wrote Friday, setting off a wave of speculation that Owens' firing was due to her recent comments about Jews in Hollywood, as well as other controversial statements she's made.

Moments after Digital World Acquisition Corporation voted to merge with Trump Media, the parent company for Donald Trump's Truth Social platform, its stock took a quick drop — losing 12 percent of its value at one point.

According to a report from CNBC, stock for the company which will be listed as DJT starting next week, began the day at $44.20 before taking a quick nosedive to below $38, before a bounceback to 3.5 percent below opening.

Judge Aileen Cannon handed special counsel Jack Smith a victory in his federal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, court records show.

Cannon Friday ruled that Smith can substitute summaries for some sensitive intelligence materials he'll need to share with Trump and his attorneys as the stalled Florida case slouches toward its yet-to-be-decided court date.