A new U.S. House speaker has finally been elected
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives finally elected Republican Mike Johnson as the 56th Speaker of the House of Representatives on Wednesday night, local time, for the first time in about three weeks.
On Tuesday, local time, Kevin McCarthy, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, was fired by members of the House of Representatives for the first time in a partisan conflict. Mr. McCarthy is the first Speaker of the House in American history to be removed from office at the suggestion of a member of his own party, and now his political fate lies in the hands of a proposal proposed by one of his own members.
According to AP, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Johnson , is an ardent supporter of former US President Donald Trump and was the driving force behind the legal team's efforts to cancel the results of the 2020 US presidential election. According to CNN, Mr. Johnson's election ends the unusual situation in which the chairman was absent for about three weeks after Kevin McCarthy was dismissed from his position on the 3rd. Johnson received 220 votes, followed by Hakeem Jeffries, the top Democrat in the House, with 209 votes. Although there was confusion over the selection of speaker due to conflicts within the Republican Party, in this vote all Republicans, except for one who was absent, supported Mr. Johnson. In his first speech since being elected Speaker, Mr Johnson said Parliament would tackle the debt crisis "immediately" to avoid a government shutdown.
The interim budget passed at the end of September, just before the deadline, covers expenditures until November 17th, and new budgetary measures are required. Johnson, from Louisiana, is the fourth candidate in the Republican Party, was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2016 after working as a lawyer, and serves as vice chair of the House Republican Conference. Mr Johnson said: ``This is not an easy task and we have to make difficult decisions.'' ``But if we don't act now, the consequences will be intolerable.'' It has also been announced that a new facility will be installed.
Hardline Republicans and supporters of former President Trump were dissatisfied with McCarthy's performance after he worked with the current Biden administration to raise the debt ceiling and pass a short-term budget bill. Mr. Trump had said on the 25th that he would not support anyone in the election for speaker of the House of Representatives, but in a post on his social networking service ``Truth Social,'' he congratulated Mr. Johnson on his appointment as speaker, and expressed his support for the selection of Mr. Johnson as speaker . claims to have made a significant contribution.
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