New House Speaker Mike Johnson may already be losing his first big clash with the hard-right lawmakers who are making the Republican majority and the nation ungovernable as time races down to yet another federal funding cut-off.
News articles calling others “hardliners” compared to him is a good indication that just by making him speaker, the overton window has moved to the right.
News articles calling others “hardliners” compared to him is a good indication that just by making him speaker, the overton window has moved to the right.
And that was the whole point of picking him.