Mike Johnson reelected as House speaker with support from President-elect Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

89% : A handful of those members changed their tune after Trump gave Johnson his "complete and total endorsement" on Monday, including Reps. Troy Nehls, R-Texas and Josh Brecheen, R-Okla.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. - who previously led an effort to oust Johnson from the speakership and in December suggested Trump ally Elon Musk would make a better speaker - urged her colleagues to support Johnson in a video posted to X Thursday night, arguing that Republicans fought hard to get Trump into office.
42% : Musk urged Republicans to vote against the deal, and Trump quickly followed suit with an additional demand that Congress raise the debt ceiling - a Herculean task with only days left before the shutdown deadline and Democrats in charge of the Senate and White House.
33% : Johnson and Trump could have faced a constitutional crisis had they not failed to elect a speaker.
28% : Appearing on former Rep. Matt Gaetz's One America News program Thursday, Massie said: "You can pull all my fingernails out.
11% : Johnson scrambled to put together a deal that could appease Trump, keep the government open and pass the House, but it failed on the floor with the help of 38 Republicans.

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