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Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., the fourth Republican to be nominated, was elected speaker today.Tuesday night. He is the party's fourth nominee for the job since Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker three weeks ago.
He said he is now headed back to Washington, where he hopes to be able to vote again for Hakeem Jeffries for speaker. If Boyle makes it back for the vote, there will be 430 members present and voting, meaning the magic number will rise to 216. Johnson can only lose four with all members voting.
"He seems willing to have that conversation and actually came up to me yesterday and said, 'I know this is your thing. This is your issue. How do we, you know, work together and move forward?' I'm very appreciative of that because that shows humility. A lot of humility." Johnson has not said that he would not support aid to Israel, but did not mention foreign aid in his proposal.Several Democrats have come up to Johnson on the floor ahead of the speaker vote. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, was spotted giving him a hug and California Democratic Reps. Ted Lieu and Jim Costa were seen chatting with him.
Johnson would also make history for being the first speaker ever to be elected on the fourth ballot. When speaker elections have gone multiple ballots, no speaker has ever been elected on ballots four to eight. “He is the cure for what has caused the last three weeks, and that’s trust," Banks said today."Everyone trusts him.”Ahead of a House floor vote on his bid for speaker, Johnson sent a letter to his colleagues outlining his plans for the rest of the year.
“I do. I do, on the first vote,” he said, when asked by NBC News if he thinks he'll get enough votes.The House will meet at noon with a potential vote on whether to confirm Johnson as speaker on the floor soon thereafter. The committees he serves on this Congress serve as a good road map to the kind of Republican he is: Judiciary, Armed Services and the Select Committee on “the Weaponization of the Federal Government.” Which is to say, he’s not shying away from the red-meat topics pushed by some of the more Fox-friendly, hard-right members of this GOP.He was one of the members involved in trying to keep former President Trump in power after he lost the election.Last night, he dodged questions about these efforts.
The interview took place ahead of a possible government shutdown and days before House Republicans ousted McCarthy as speaker.
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