The Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States, Mike Johnson, announces “drastic cuts” and giving “power back to the people”.
According to the AFP news agency, he says this in a statement after he has been re-elected to the post on Friday evening Danish time.
– After four years of high inflation, we have a big agenda. We have a lot to do, and we can do it in cross-party cooperation, says Johnson.
He promises to help the incoming president of the United States, Donald Trump, with sweeping economic changes.
– We can fight the high inflation, and we must. We will give the Americans a breather and we will extend Trump’s tax cuts, says Johnson, according to the AFP news agency.
– We will drastically reduce the size and scope of government and give power back to the people.
Trump congratulates Johnson on his re-election, calling it a victory for “common sense” and a sign of the bright future America faces.
Trump writes this on his social media, Truth Social.
Here he also describes it as an “unprecedented vote of confidence”, which Johnson won in Congress earlier on Friday.
– Mike will be a good chairman, and that will benefit our country, writes Trump.
– The people of America have been waiting for four years for common sense, strength and leadership. Now they will, and America will be greater than ever before!
Mike Johnson was re-elected with 218 votes that came from the 219 Republican members of the chamber.
It is exactly sufficient for him to secure a majority among the total of 435 members in the House of Representatives.
At first it appeared that only 216 of his own Republican Party colleagues would vote for him.
The American congressional media outlet Punchbowl News writes that Trump personally intervened and spoke on the phone with two of the three Republicans who had voted against Johnson. Then they changed their votes.
According to the television station CNN, this is the thinnest majority behind a Speaker of the House of Representatives in nearly 100 years.
All 215 Democratic members of the House voted for their own party’s leader, Hakeem Jeffries.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
