{"id":18697,"date":"2026-02-06T19:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/nevada-republican-mark-amodei-to-retire\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:16:46","slug":"nevada-republican-mark-amodei-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/nevada-republican-mark-amodei-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Republican Mark Amodei to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/177013\" data-person-id=\"177013\">Mark Amodei<\/a> (R-Nev.), the top Republican on the DHS appropriations subcommittee, will not seek reelection to the House this year, he announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-term lawmaker is just the latest high-profile Republican to announce plans to retire from Congress in an increasingly murky midterm environment for the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came to Congress to solve problems and to make sure our State and Nation have strong voice in the federal policy and oversight processes,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/amodei.house.gov\/news-releases\/amodei-announces-retirement\" target=\"_blank\">he said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cI look forward to finishing my term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amodei\u2019s 2nd District is Republican-leaning and would likely remain in GOP hands even in a tough year for the party overall. He\u2019s the only Republican in the state\u2019s congressional delegation.<\/p>\n<p>Amodei\u2019s decision comes just three months after President Donald Trump blessed him with a \u201cComplete and Total Endorsement for Re-election\u201d in November. At the time, it appeared he would run again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you Mr. President @realDonaldTrump!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AmodeiForNevada\/status\/1985448520665489444\" target=\"_blank\">Amodei wrote in response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.), the top Republican on the DHS appropriations subcommittee, will not seek reelection to the House this year, he announced Friday. The eight-term lawmaker is just the latest high-profile Republican to announce plans to retire from Congress in an increasingly murky midterm environment for the GOP. \u201cI came to Congress to solve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}