Speaker of the House

New Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said that the House will work to provide much needed resources to Israel, but did not specify whether the resources will include money, weapons and/or troops. He said that Congress will back the war "unwaveringly, till the end".

McCarthy accidentally  exposed his intentions during a poll assessing the potential of Mike Johnson as House Speaker. Everyone was eager to take this poll to gauge the room’s mood, except for McCarthy, who was trying to regain his position as Speaker of the House as a write-in candidate.

Congressman Matt Gaetz filed a motion against Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and eight hard-right Republicans joined 208 Democrats in supporting McCarthy’s removal. Gaetz accused McCarthy of cutting a secret deal with Biden to fund Ukraine.

J Sorel dissects the recently unveiled portrait of the Speaker of the House, finding it to be the perfect expression of a ruling class that believe it's under siege and asserts its authority with hysterical earnestness.
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