Mike Johnson will continue to be the Speaker of the US House after a last-minute first vote change by two republican holdouts.
Speaker nominee Mike Johnson (R-La.) clinched 218 votes to reclaim the gavel on the first ballot.
The final tally was 218 for Johnson and 215 for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).
Three Republicans initially voted against Johnson: Reps.-elect Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), and Keith Self (R-Texas). But in the final moments of the vote, Norman and Self changed their vote to Johnson, handing him the speakership.
Johnson will oversee the Republican majority in the new session of Congress as Republicans try (some of them at least) to advance the Trump agenda over the next two years.
