Who is Mike Johnson, the Trumpist and ultraconservative evangelical who will preside over the US House of Representatives.

The election of the legislator michael johnson As the new president of the US House of Representatives, he puts an ally of the former president in power in that chamber. donald trump (2017-2021), which for Democrats is one of the most extreme in the conservative party.

The representative for Louisiana51 years old, he served in the state Legislature from 2015 to January 2017 and then moved to the federal Legislature, where he is vice-president of the Republican Conferencethe entity responsible for choosing the republican leadershipapproving assignments to committees and developing the communications strategy.

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An ultraconservative evangelical Christian, married since 1999 and father of four children, describes himself on his website as a lawyer.”who dedicated his life and career to the fight for fundamental freedoms and values traditional”.

His coming to power in the hemicycle, succeeding the also conservative Kevin McCarthyrejected on October 3 after a motion against him brought by the radical Matt Gaetzputs an end to the parliamentary chaos that has existed since then, which Democrats described as a “circus”.

At first he was designated as a candidate “number two”from the Republicans in the Lower House, Steve Scaliseand later the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan. The first gave up before even taking his candidacy to the plenary, realizing that he would not have the necessary votes, and the second after three frustrated attempts.

The last victim was Tom Emmerelected this Tuesday, who abandoned his candidacy again four hours later due to the internal boycott, amplified by public criticism from trump against him.

Although the former Republican president did not explicitly support the Johnsonsaying that he would no longer take a stand in favor of anyone, he congratulated him when he was nominated and later also after being chosen.

“You will be a great speaker and we will be happy to help you. I’ve known him for a long time. He is a tremendous leader. “He will make us all proud.”said this Wednesday about the legislator, trained in Business Administration and PhD in Jurisprudence.

For Democrats, the new “speaker” it was him “architect” behind the scenes of what they call “Big lie” by Trump. The lawmaker helped spread election conspiracy theories and led the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, in which Democrat Joe Biden was imposed.

Johnson was actually a member of the trump when he was impeached”impeachment”.

He Democratic National Committee reprimands him for being a “anti-abortion extremist who has repeatedly supported and co-sponsored national legislation” against the voluntary termination of pregnancy, and which has already passed “All your political career trying to take away women’s reproductive freedom and arresting doctors for providing them medical attention”.

Johnson worked for the Alliance for Freedoman antigroup LGBTQ+.

For Marco Frieri, spokesman for the Democrats, he could be the most “MAGA” that the Lower House had. This is the acronym for “Make America Great Again” (Let’s Make America Great Again), the presidential campaign and slogan of trump.

It is part of the “Inner circle”of the former president and according to progressives “He has no problems with use the power of your office to fulfill your requests”leading, among other efforts, to cut funding for programs such as Social Security.

Johnson managed, however, to overcome the internal division. The previous candidates withdrew either voluntarily or forced by the lack of support from around twenty of their colleagues, and in this Wednesday’s vote the support received was unanimous.

His first statement in his new role made his intentions clear: “We will promote a comprehensive conservative political agenda, combat the harmful policies of the Administration of Biden and we will support our allies abroad. AND We will be back sanity to a government that desperately needs it. Let’s go back to work”, he said on X (formerly Twitter).

The interim presidency was until now in the hands of the conservative Patrick McHenrypointed out by McCarthybut without the president of the Chamber, new bills or resolutions cannot be approved, fully requiring Negotiate the current fiscal year’s budget or aid to Israel or Ukraine.

The first bill that promotes as “speaker“, as he detailed, it will be precisely in favor of Israel, but the management of the border with Mexico and fentanyl trafficking are other of its priorities.

Source: Elcomercio

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