Trump-backed Mike Johnson remains House speaker after Republican holdouts flip votes at last minute

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Trump weighed in to congratulate Johnson on Truth Social just minutes after the vote, writing that the newly-minted speaker had earned "an unprecedented Vote of Confidence in Congress.
19% : Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to Trump, swore in the new senators.
12% : According to CNN, Trump called both lawmakers while the voting was still open and urged them to throw their weight behind Johnson.
9% : Johnson pulled it from consideration after Trump himself demanded that the stopgap spending bill to keep the government open also lift the country's statutory debt ceiling so he could blame any resulting spending on the incumbent Biden administration, but a replacement bill doing just that failed to garner enough support from Republicans to pass along party lines.

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