House Installs New Speaker: YOLO Johnson
by Talking Points Memo
Talking Points Memo— I don't pretend to even understand the moving parts of how this is supposed to work. But almost out of the blue Speaker Mike Johnson has decided to go all-in on an aid package for Ukraine
WANE 15—U.S. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson keynote speaker for GOP dinner. The U.S. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, was the keynote speaker and spoke to WANE 15 about various issues surrounding the republican party.
Daily Kos—Mike Johnson may be speaker, but Democrats run the House. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has laid it all on the table: He’s staking his speakership—and his cozy relationship with Donald Trump—on aid to Ukraine, and putting his fate in the hands of Democrats. Democrats, in turn, are not going to make it easy for him. In an impassioned speech Wednesday, Johnson argued that getting aid to Ukraine was paramount, even if putting that bill on the floor will likely trigger a move to oust him. “This is a critical time right now, a critical time on the...
The Federalist—If The GOP Loses Its House Majority, It's Speaker Johnson's Fault. And actually, we’d be better off with a Democrat-controlled Congress (and an actual GOP opposition) than whatever this is.