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.

  • @afraid_of_zombies
    2•1 year ago

    I have seen people and been to places where they live in home that is some sticks and a tarp across it next to a neighbor who isn’t doing any better. Where sewage poured into the streets.

    I hate this super condensed view of things. You have an Internet connection means about a billion people on earth would murder you for the wealth you have.

    • @DarthBueller
      0•1 year ago

      For a second I thought you were talking about the sugar cane shanty towns in Florida. But despite living in one room shacks with broken foundations and corrugated steel roofs, the cane cutter families do have functional plumbing and sewage.