In the last month, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has pulled off what at one time seemed like an impossible feat.
Despite an unruly conference and his own inexperience, he managed to usher through the House three sets of bills that fractured Republicans for much of the 118th Congress.
Each piece of legislation, on foreign aid, 2024 spending, and warrantless surveillance, represented a strike against him in the eyes of the hard-liners considering his ouster. They required compromise with the Democrats and, in some cases, lacked the votes of a majority of House Republicans.
But Johnson has emerged on the other side of the turmoil in a position of strength. He is likely to survive an ouster attempt, should it materialize, and has moved
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