WASHINGTON — Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., mentioned Friday she will not search re-election in 2024, turning into the primary Home member to announce retirement within the present election cycle.

“It has been my honor representing Hoosiers within the Indiana State Senate and U.S. Congress and I admire the robust assist on the bottom. 2024 will mark seven years of holding elected workplace and over a decade in Republican politics,” Spartz mentioned in a press release.

“I gained quite a lot of powerful battles for the folks and can work arduous to win a couple of extra within the subsequent two years,” she continued. “Nevertheless, being a working mother is hard and I have to spend extra time with my two highschool women again dwelling, so I can’t run for any workplace in 2024.”

Spartz, 44, has served within the Home since 2021 and has had an eventful begin to the brand new Congress. She went from “sure” to “current” and again to “sure” on Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s bid for the gavel in a weeklong sequence of votes. She initially got here out towards her get together’s push to take away Rep. Ilhan Omar, R-Minn., from the Home Overseas Affairs Committee, calling it a “charade” — earlier than flipping to sure.

Spartz, a Ukrainian-born American, was additionally weighing a run for her state’s open seat within the U.S. Senate in 2024, however the GOP institution has recently been coalescing round Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind.

The choice to retire as a substitute may alleviate political strain on her within the subsequent two years, below the slender GOP Home majority.