"Just minutes after Speaker Mike Johnson could exhale, having put down a short-lived conservative revolt and won re-election to his post on Friday, hard-right lawmakers sent him a letter. It was not congratulatory."
"Despite our sincere reservations regarding the speaker's track record over the past 15 months, lawmakers in the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus continued, appending a list of three major complaints about Mr. Johnson and seven policy dictates they demanded he adopt."
"Ever since he ascended to the top job in the House, Mr. Johnson has had one of the hardest jobs in Washington... with total Republican control of government and President-elect Donald J. Trump's enormous domestic agenda at stake, he is facing his toughest test yet."
"Mr. Johnson will be responsible for pushing through Mr. Trump's economic plans, which include one or more huge bills that lawmakers say they want to simultaneously increase the nation's borrowing limit, extend tax cuts, cut federal spending, and enforce a wide-ranging immigration crackdown."
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