Selection of ultraconservative Mike Johnson heightens uncertain over Ukraine funding, federal government shutdown.
GOP members unified behind Mike Johnson, a little-known social conservative who supports a national abortion ban, opposes federal recognition of same-sex marriages and led efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
But it’s doubtful he means all the people. It remains to be seen whether he will work with Democrats or without them. Whether he will work with all the Republicans or only those who hew to the expanding MAGA wing of the party. The election of Johnson demonstrates how far right the House has swung. Fearful of primary challenges from the conservative wing, moderate House members, who are receding in numbers, could only stand their ground so long.
They then headed off two other Republican nominees for speaker, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Minority Whip Tom Emmer of Indiana, ever bringing their candidacies to a floor vote. Democrats are fortunate that, at least so far, their 80-year-old president has remained healthy. And they’re lucky that the late-Sen. Dianne Feinstein came from a blue state where the governor could appoint her successor.
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