Trey Gowdy Announces He Will Not Seek Re-Election

Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has just announced that he will leave Capitol Hill at the end of his current term. The House Oversight Committee chairman says he will no longer seek elected office in favor of a return to his previous work in the justice system.

There is a time to come and a time to go. This is the right time, for me, to leave politics and return to the justice system. Full statement here → pic.twitter.com/7I8AApqvs1

— Trey Gowdy (@TGowdySC) January 31, 2018

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