Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, Congressman Mike Johnson hangs on to the Speaker's gavel in the U.S. House. But a razor-thin majority means more battles ahead.

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Welcome to the NewsHour.

It was a dramatic beginning to the 119th Congress as Republicans prepare for unified control in Washington.

And for the House GOP, unified it was, albeit with some delay.

Despite a handful of initial holdouts, Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana was re-elected Speaker of the House on the first ballot,

earning support from all but one member of his party.

Johnson spoke about his priorities for the coming year.

After four years of high inflation, we have a big agenda. We have a lot to do, and we can do it in a bipartisan fashion.

We can fight high inflation, and we must.

We'll give relief to Americans, and we'll extend the Trump tax cuts.

Speaker Johnson will now have to wrangle the narrow Republican majority

to implement President-elect Donald Trump's agenda.

Lisa Desjardin has been tracking the maneuvering on Capitol Hill all day, and she joins me now.

So Lisa, a dramatic day indeed. Walk us through how this vote unfolded.

Maneuvering is the right word on now. Walking into the House today, it seemed the odds were against Mike Johnson

winning on the first vote or even today at all. He had 12 at least members that I knew of

who had serious doubts and were ready to vote no. And in fact, he wasn't losing this race

for at least an hour. Let's go over those numbers. To become Speaker of the House, Johnson

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