“It shows a structural problem,” Michael Waltz, a third-term Floridia Republican, tells WIRED. “You have to, in a republic, be able to rule by majority vote, and when we have a structural problem that came out of January where we can’t, then I think that’s gotta be fixed.”

Scalise’s give up appears to have dislodged one thing. Some Republicans say it’s time to name on the House parliamentarian—the chamber’s procedural mind belief—to see if there’s an obscure loophole they’ll use to bypass this newest Republican blockade of Republicans. “There’s suggestion of that, but I don’t see consensus around that,” Waltz says, at the same time as he says tweaking inner get together guidelines is completely different than overhauling House guidelines. “We’re gonna be addressing our rules.” For now, the vast majority of the GOP don’t dare tamper with House guidelines, in no small half as a result of Trump’s base is enlivened, engaged, and digitally screaming on the get together’s rank and file.

Thing is, all of this was inevitable. “We knew this. I felt this in November when we, sadly, won with such a slim majority,” Chuck Fleischmann, a seven-term Tennessean, tells WIRED. “You could feel the difficulties of that slim majority present at that time. It just came into fruition 10 months later.”

Inevitable positive; painful nonetheless. Scalise is affable, real, and beloved by many, particularly as he at the moment battles most cancers after surviving a mass capturing simply six years in the past.

“The mood is pensive. There was a little bit of surprise there,” Fleischmann says. “This is not going to be an easy process. We had an historic event last week—a first, the vacating of the chair—so moving forward in these uncharted waters, in these uncharted times, is going to be difficult with a very slim majority.”

Slim and divided. Moments after Scalise and his entourage of aides and suit-donning officers left the Capitol Thursday night, his inglorious departure was already a distant reminiscence to second-term Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota.

“I’m looking for my phone,” the flustered congresswoman fretted, rifling by the massive purse she set on a bronze-rimmed trash can within the Capitol’s dingy basement. When requested if she was pissed off by how the day ended, with Scalise’s stroll of disgrace earlier than his political household and the press corps, Fischbach spoke up on behalf of the minority of the minority of the bulk get together, telling WIRED, “It’s more frustrating that I can’t find my phone.”

The frustration is palpable.