USA: new House Speaker is a Republican
After the failed ones of Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan and Tom Emmert for the new speaker of the American chamber, the conservatives managed to replace Kevin McCarthy with the Republican Mike Johnson, who obtained 220 votes, with the Republicans voting unitedly behind their candidate. An evangelical Christian who voted for a nationwide ban on abortion, Johnson also opposed federal recognition of same-sex couples and has long resisted inviting aid to Ukraine.
