Rep. Jake LaTurner (R-KS), one of the youngest House Republicans, is not running for reelection in 2024, joining the mass exodus of GOP members leaving Congress after a tumultuous year on Capitol Hill.

LaTurner, 36, announced his retirement from the House on Thursday. The Kansas congressman is the 22nd House Republican to decide against running for reelection.

However, unlike his fellow GOP member Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), 40, LaTurner said he plans to serve out the remainder of his term. Gallagher is set to retire early from Congress on Friday, however, he may postpone his resignation in order to attend a critical vote series on foreign aid this weekend.

In his statement, LaTurner called the current “dysfunction” on Capitol Hill “distressing, but it almost always has been; we just didn’t see most of it.”

“It has become fashionable for some to fear for the future of this country and act as though the problems we face and the divisions that exist are insurmountable, but that is just not true,” LaTurner said.

LaTurner’s announcement comes during a chaotic week in the House, as the Republican conference fractures over Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) four-pronged foreign aid supplemental and whether to move forward with a motion to vacate him from his position. A small coalition of House Freedom Caucus members and their allies have come out in staunch opposition to the procedural rule on the bills and the legislation itself.

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Despite the infighting that has plagued the conference for months, LaTurner said the “vast majority” of the people he has served with are “good and trying to do the right thing.”

LaTurner is in his second term as a congressman after being elected to Kansas’s traditionally conservative 2nd Congressional District. No Republican candidates have filed for the 2024 primary, which is on Aug. 6. Joseph Swain and Eli Woody IV are set to face each other for the Democratic nomination.