Mike Johnson fights to retain the speaker's gavel -- with help from Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

86% : "I respect and support President Trump, but his endorsement of Mike Johnson is going to work out about as well as his endorsement of Speaker Paul Ryan," Massie wrote on X before the new year.
60% : "We have unified government that begins tomorrow.
41% : The speaker said he spent New Year's Day with Trump at his Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, shortly after a Cybertruck exploded outside a Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.
36% : It took 15 rounds of voting over multiple days, and personal phone calls from Trump, to convince the Gaetz group to stand down.
14% : But Johnson has already lost one GOP vote; Rep. Thomas Massie, of Kentucky, is rallying colleagues on X against Johnson, whom he blames for striking deals on government spending, Ukraine aid and the renewal of a powerful surveillance program known as FISA Section 702.

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