Congressional conservatives don’t have fewer reservations about House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) than they did when he was first elected. If anything, they have more.
But the handful of conservative dissidents still had no realistic path to the speakership themselves. They had no viable alternative, which is how they wound up with Johnson in the first place after ousting former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in 2023.
So Johnson was reelected, on the first ballot after a delay instead of the 15 ballots it took to install McCarthy two years ago. With the exception of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), nobody wanted to delay the certification of Trump’s victory or the enactment of his agenda as Republicans gain unified control of the federal government, even if they
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