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Speaker Johnson begins fight for the House gavel, winning nod from Trump

Los Angeles Times
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House Speaker Mike Johnson will be the next speaker of the Republican caucus on Wednesday .

He has no serious challenger but faces dissent within his ranks, particularly from hard-right conservatives and the Freedom Caucus withholding their votes as leverage to extract promises ahead.

Johnson has embraced the president-elect's agenda of mass deportations, tax cuts, gutting the federal workforce and a more muscular U.S. image abroad.

Mascaro writes for the Associated Press . Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times ..

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