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New House Speaker Mike Johnson Urges “Prayer” in Response to Mass Shooting
Johnson “puts the gun lobby ahead of public safety every time," one gun reform group noted.
New House Speaker Mike Johnson Used to Be Top Counsel for Anti-LGBTQ Hate Group
Johnson was a leader for Alliance Defending Freedom, which wrote the abortion ban that led to the downfall of “Roe.”
New House Speaker Had Proposed Trillions in Cuts to Social Security and Medicare
As chair of the Republican Study Committee, Mike Johnson suggested slashing the programs should be Congress’s priority.
Mike Johnson Named GOP’s Fourth Speaker Nominee After Tom Emmer Drops Out
Republicans have been trying — and failing — to find a candidate who can win the speakership since the start of October.
GOP Lawmaker’s Federal “Don’t Say Gay” Bill Is More Restrictive Than Florida’s
“This is their end game,” one critic of the GOP bill said, “to censor and ban LGBTQ from all public life.”