Mike Johnson ekes out speakership in dramatic vote, an ominous sign for Donald Trump's new Republican Congress - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday.
50% : The promises, however, lacked specific concessions and stuck to commitments to review government spending.
35% : "The House can't conduct any business without first electing a speaker and a protracted fight over the job could have complicated certification of Trump's election on Monday as well as delay the chamber getting to work on the Republican agenda of tax cuts, border security and slashing government spending.
35% : Trump has announced he will nominate two House Republicans, Elise Stefanik of New York and Mike Waltz of Florida, for administration positions.
14% : But unlike when McCarthy fell in 2023, this time is Trump will be president on Jan. 20 and has publicly backed Johnson, a Louisiana conservative backbencher before emerging from the chaos of McCarthy's ouster as a compromise choice.

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