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United States, new Congress, general elections, republicans, control

United States, new Congress


Washington, Jan. 3. - Starting today, the United States will have a new Congress, the 119th, the result of the general elections of November 5, in which the Republicans secured their control for the next two years.

In the Senate, 12 of its 100 members won their seats in those elections, while in the House of Representatives there are more than 60 of the 435 that make up that body. All will be sworn in this January 3rd.

So the Capitol will end the hustle and bustle between those who leave and pack, and those who arrive to settle in Washington.

The new Congress will have important decisions before it, such as the spending plan that must be discussed in March and that at the end of November was the subject of last-minute negotiations in the current legislature after the opposition of President-elect Donald Trump and his ally Elon Musk to a bipartisan agreement to avoid the closure of the government.

Also on Friday, the election of the speaker or president of the Lower House should take place, whose gavel is in the hands of the Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson, who already has the important endorsement of Trump to continue in the position.

On Monday, Trump wrote on his Truth Social network that Johnson is “a good, hard-working and religious man” who “will do the right thing and we will continue to win” for which he has my complete and total support.

Despite the public support of the future 47th President, Republican Congressman Thomas Massie published on the X platform that he will not vote for Johnson, blaming him for having “associated with the Democrats to send money to Ukraine, had authorized spying on Americans and took the budget.”

The election of the speaker of the House of Representatives in October 2023 occurred after a process of internal party chaos. Johnson emerged as the fourth choice of the Republicans after the proposals of Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan and Tom Emmer.

Neither of them managed to gather enough support to succeed Kevin McCarthy, who was expelled that month by a motion presented by then Florida representative Matt Gaetz, a member of the most conservative wing of the party in the hemicycle and until recently Trump's nominee for attorney general in his second administration. (Text and photo: PL)


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