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Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.) said Speaker Mike Johnson secured re-election because enough House Republicans were reassured that Johnson would follow President-elect Trump’s agenda. “They have concerns that that’s not going to be enacted,” Perry said. Perry voted for Johnson, while some of his colleagues in the hard-right House Freedom Caucus initially did not.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R., Tenn.), one of eight Republicans who voted to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) in 2023, said of the current speaker: “Mike Johnson’s an honorable man and he has never lied to me. And in politics that’s a rare commodity.”