Donald Trump ally Mike Johnson entered the House of Representatives in 2017.
WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives finally elected a new speaker on Wednesday, ending weeks of bitter Republican infighting that paralysed Congress at a time of international and domestic crisis.
“It’s the beauty of America that allows a firefighter’s kid like me to come here and serve in the sacred chamber where great men and women have served before all of us.” Johnson will also be expected to lead his deeply fractured conference through upcoming fights over funding for Ukraine and Israel. Biden congratulated Johnson and vowed to work with him, adding that the US now needed “to move swiftly to address our national security needs and to avoid a shutdown.”A virtual unknown, Johnson’s lack of star power appears to have helped the 51-year-old attorney and religious rights campaigner, who lacked the enemies from his own side that prompted the downfall of other candidates.
Formerly a junior member of the leadership as the conference vice-chairman, Johnson entered the House of Representatives in 2017, having stirred controversy with legislation seen as anti-gay in Louisiana state politics. ABC News asked Johnson late Tuesday about the filing, which the Supreme Court declined to adjudicate, but he merely replied “next question” as his colleagues began jeering.
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