Meet Mike Johnson, Republicans’ new House speaker.

Republicans have at long last elected a House speaker: Representative Mike Johnson, a fundamentalist Christian who was also once called a key “architect” in Congress’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.

Johnson finally secured the speaker’s gavel after Republican infighting left the House without a speaker for 22 days. He secured 220 votes.

Johnson is a four-term congressman representing Louisiana. His win also represents the rise of the MAGA front in the Republican Party. Earlier Wednesday morning, Donald Trump endorsed Johnson as House speaker—after quickly killing Mike Emmer’s nomination the day before.

  • Optional
    35•1 year ago

    Let’s get this gummit shutdown underway.

    • Chetzemoka
      19•1 year ago

      Except it’s threatening to delay my union vote at work. Our hospital corporation is deliberately stalling in hopes the government will shut down and the NLRB won’t be available to oversee our vote. Our union is busy pushing NLRB to get it done already.

    • @cogman
      17•1 year ago

      Yup. Dude is a crackpot that wants to defund everything.