The Friday Brief
The Big Story
The House MAGAs, the Chaos Caucus, and Donald Trump got what they wanted in the end: Mike Johnson, a three-term Congressman from Louisana so far to the right his elevation shocked even some of my conservative friends. He is the very first Speaker of the Trump Era. He entered Congress in 2016; he’s from a robustly drawn deep-red district and was raised in the post-Tea Party political culture war GOP.
