In His First Big Showdown, an Unyielding Conservative Yields

Being an uncompromising conservative hard-liner is much easier from the backbenches of the House than it is from the leadership suites.

But as speaker, Mr. Johnson was forced to bow to the political reality that spending proposals designed to appease the far right cannot become law in a divided government.

We trust what he says. [...] He's got one thing unique.

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