Donald Trump avoids chaos in Congress. The House of Representatives, with a conservative majority, voted this Friday, January 3, to maintain its current president or “speaker”, Mike Johnson.
This very religious elected official from Louisiana was able to count on the support of the president-elect, despite the hostility of a handful of elected Republican officials. He managed to be re-elected in the first round of voting.
At the heart of the criticisms made against Mike Johnson by these few Republican elected officials: the budget agreement that he recently negotiated with the Democrats to avoid a paralysis of federal public services just before the holidays.