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Today, Explained

Speaker Johnson's next test

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Congress is back in session and the House speakership is once again on the line. The New Yorker’s David Kirkpatrick explains how Mike Johnson got the gavel and whether he’ll be able to keep it. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi with help from Miranda Kennedy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tomorrow Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson will travel to Marilago to give a joint speech

0:05.9

with candidate slash defendant Donald J Trump on election integrity. Trump likes Johnson a lot,

0:12.4

but on Capitol Hill Johnson is stuck.

0:14.8

He wants to pass legislation to fund the war in Ukraine, but hardline members of his

0:19.2

caucus are blocking him.

0:21.0

Mike Johnson has completely betrayed our conference and his leadership cannot be allowed to continue

0:26.3

going forward.

0:27.6

His main antagonist, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, sent a letter to House Republicans on Tuesday tearing into Johnson

0:34.7

for surrendering to Democrats, by which she meant working with them to prevent a government

0:39.5

shutdown.

0:40.5

Green is threatening to call a vote to oust Johnson and if she does well look at what happened to Kevin McCarthy.

0:46.1

The office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant.

0:55.0

Coming up on today explained Speaker Mike Johnson.

1:00.0

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1:29.8

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1:37.0

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