{"id":29482,"date":"2025-01-01T00:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T00:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/republican-support-wavers-for-mike-johnsons-re-election-as-house-speaker\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T00:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T00:54:48","slug":"republican-support-wavers-for-mike-johnsons-re-election-as-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/republican-support-wavers-for-mike-johnsons-re-election-as-house-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican support wavers for Mike Johnson\u2019s re-election as House speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Donald Trump\u2019s endorsement, Johnson is facing criticism for his handling of the government budget battle<\/p>\n<p>A senior Texas Republican congressman has said that the House speaker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/mike-johnson\">Mike Johnson<\/a>, does not yet have the votes to be re-elected to the speakership ahead of an election to be held later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Chip Roy told Fox Business\u2019s Varney &amp; Co that he was undecided on supporting the Louisiana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a>, despite Donald Trump issuing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/30\/trump-endorses-mike-johnson\">full-throated endorsement of Johnson<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/31\/mike-johnson-house-speaker-republican-support\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Donald Trump\u2019s endorsement, Johnson is facing criticism for his handling of the government budget battle A senior Texas Republican congressman has said that the House speaker, Mike Johnson, does not yet have the votes to be re-elected to the speakership ahead of an election to be held later this week. Representative Chip Roy told &#8230; <a title=\"Republican support wavers for Mike Johnson\u2019s re-election as House speaker\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/republican-support-wavers-for-mike-johnsons-re-election-as-house-speaker\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republican support wavers for Mike Johnson\u2019s re-election as House speaker\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}