By a unanimous GOP vote early yesterday afternoon — 220 Republican votes for Johnson, 209 Democrat votes for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — the Christian conservative congressman whom New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik said “epitomizes servant leadership” became the 56th speaker of the House.
As we noted yesterday, Johnson is a Freedom Caucus member with a strong 91 American Conservative Union rating, and he’s also a past president of the highly influential Republican Study Committee, the largest committee in the GOP conference.
