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US House Speaker May Lose His Post in January Elections - Reports

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US House Speaker Mike Johnson has found himself in a difficult position after the adoption of the government funding bill and may not get enough votes in the upcoming elections, which will be held in the House in January 2025, The Daily Caller news portal reported, citing Republican congressmen.

"Mike Johnson’s disastrous handling of the continuing resolution unquestionably left his future speakership imperiled with several members rethinking whether they can back him in January," one House Republican was quoted as saying by the news portal on Monday.

Johnson's fate largely depends on whether US President-elect Donald Trump will continue to support him, the report noted.

"There’s nothing Mike Johnson can do between now and the Speaker’s race to regain the trust of Republicans in Congress. He’s as lame of a duck as Joe Biden," another Republican lawmaker added.

In this March 23, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington. A growing American economy and passage of a Republican tax overhaul appear to be helping Trump lift his approval ratings from historic lows - Sputnik International, 1920, 23.12.2024

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On Monday, the Semafor news portal reported that Trump's allies accuse Johnson of betraying Republican interests after Congress passed a bill to finance the government. Johnson introduced the bill that did not contain Trump's key demand - raising the debt ceiling before the president-elect's inauguration.

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