Washington – Republicans of the US Chamber on Friday chose the representative of Louisiana Mike Johnson at the 119th Congress, after weeks of speculation about whether GOP will start another extended, public dispute over leadership.
The voting filled with the drama assured that Johnson, who was first elected in October 2023, would keep the hammer when the Republicans set off in an ambitious legislative program, which includes a review of the immigration system of the country and the tax code.
Johnson won the voices Of the 218 Republicans, and 215 Democrats voted at New York a representative of Hakeem Jeffries.
Representative of Kentucky Thomas Massie, representative of South Karolina Ralph Norman and Texas Rep. Keith Self, everyone originally voted for other speaker members. But after a few conversations, on the floor and outside, Norman and Self changed their voice to Johnson.
The elections in November handed GOP unified government control, which will formally start on January 20, when President Elek Donald Trump took the oath.
“This congress renounces the status quo, and we will listen to the voices of people. We will act quickly and start by defending the borders of our nation – this is our number one priority – said Johnson during the speech after the vote. “In coordination with President Trump, Congress will provide our agents for enforcing law and immigration, the resources needed to perform their work.”
He said that the United Republican control over the government deported people in the country without legal status and would end building a border wall.
Johnson said that in the next two years GOP would take bills to reduce taxes, expand energy production and “reduce the size and scope of the government.”
Trump’s support
Asset Johnson supported at the beginning of this week and repeated his support before voting on Friday post in social media, Johnson’s writing is “a good man with great abilities who is very close to having 100% support.”
“Mike’s victory will be a great win for the Republican Party today, and another recognition of our 129 years of the most consistent presidential elections !! – Indeed great affirmation. Magician! “
Self told journalists that he changed his voice after talking to Trump and Johnson about GOP priorities such as reconciliation.
“President Trump has the same emphasis as me,” Self said. “We must make sure that this congress is as strong as possible when we are heading against the Senate in the reconciliation package (a) reconciliation, because there is a debate on what the reconciliation package looks like.”
Norman told journalists that he changed his voice after Johnson “gave us confidence that he would fight for everything when he was going forward.”
Republicans plan to apply the complicated process of agreeing the budget in order to adopt several of its political goals, but this process has strict rules to circumvent the 60-voice legislative filislating filiser of the Senate.
The leader of most of the Senate, John Thune, a republican from southern Dakota, who was taken by the head of this chamber on Friday undertook to maintain this procedural obstacle on the spot In the case of bills for non -compliance.
“Significant expenditure reforms”
Johnson issued three obligations just before voting the speakers, Writing on social media that “Republicans have a real opportunity in the next two years to make significant reforms of expenses to eliminate waste billions, fraud and abuse and to end the weapons of the government.”
He undertook to determine the “working group consisting of independent experts – not damaged by lobbyists and special interests – to cooperate with Doge and our committees in the implementation of the recommended government and expenditure reforms to protect the American taxpayer.”
Trump has Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswama were asked with the assumption of the external groupcalled the Department of Government Efficiency or Doge to recommend the Cutting Congress of Cutting Expenses, although both can be found with a significant impact depending on the recommendations.
Johnson wrote in his post in social media that he would instrument a working group to review “existing audit of federal agencies and entities created by Congress” and published a report on his findings.
Finally, Johnson wrote that he would “ask” for “home committees undertake aggressive permits and reviews of funds, including providing additional resources, if necessary, disclosure “.
Contrast with the Battle of McCarthy
Johnson’s elections at the first vote meant a slightly smoother beginning of this congress than the last one, in January 2023, When it took the house of GOP 15 rounds of voting For a few days before selecting members of the then-Potórka. Kevin McCarthy as a speaker.
Nine months later, McCarthy was deprived of a role, and the Republicans took about a month to connect around Johnson, after unsuccessful offers from Steve Scalise from Louisiana, Jim Jordan Emmer from Ohio and Tom Emmer from Minnesota.
Johnson will have to work closely with Thune to keep two chambers in the field of politics.
Both have a discouraging list of legislative goals they need to unite GOP legislators nearby, in a very skinny majority.
Voters chose Republicans up to 220 household places and gave democrats 215 representatives of the Chamber, one of the closest majority in the history of the country.
Johnson will have an even narrower margin of victory, because the former representative of Florida Matt Gaetz did not take the oath on Friday after he decided to resign from Congress at the end of December An investigation was issued in the case of the Ethics Committee.
Two additional home republicans are expected to take place in the coming weeks to take positions in Trump’s administration. Special elections to replace these three legislators will last months and do not necessarily guarantee that voters will choose Republicans to represent these districts.
In the Senate, Republicans occupy 53 places, giving Thune a little more space to negotiate politics, though not much.
The narrow majority will require from extreme right and centric republicans to support wide bills that can solve complicated areas of politics, such as immigration and taxes-uncommonly complex task.
Republicans were able to adopt a wide tax law in 2017, when they recently maintained united control over the government, but at that time they occupied 241 household places.
While all 51 Republicans of the Senate voted for the final version of this project, a dozen GOP legislators voted against the package, and three did not vote.
The former legislators are in the 119th Congress
According to almost half of the 119th Congress – 247 of 535 members – were former state or territorial legislators National Legislative Conference.
Twelve states – Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin – have at least six former state legislators serving in the recent Congress.
California, Florida, New York and Texas have at least 11 previous state legislators at the 119th Congress.
The Democratic Committee of the Legislative Campaign said that 120 of 260 democrats are previous state legislators.
Last updated 16:56, January 3, 2025
A delegation in the USA in Pennsylvania adds two Republicans
Newly elected representatives of American Pennsylvania. Rob Bresnahan (R-8th District) and Ryan Mackenzie (R-7th District) were sworn in Friday.
Bresnahan turned the seat red By beating the democrat of Matt Cartwright in a race for a district in northern Pennsylvania, including scranton. Cartwright has represented this region since 2013.
Mackenzie also took his place in a column of winnings for Republicans Beating the democrat Susan Wild for a place in the Lehigh Valley. Wilda won the place for the first time in 2018 and was re -elected in 2022, after which he lost to Mackenza in November.
Bresnahan will serve in American home committees in the field of transport and infrastructure, agriculture and tiny companies, and Mackenzie It will serve the committees for education and labor, foreign affairs and internal security.
