Greeting the crowd outside the Capitol Rotunda, President Donald Trump praised the nation’s House Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional leaders. Trump called Johnson “a man beloved by all” and said he had never met anyone like that.
Trump also acknowledged the slim Republican majority in the House, which is even thinner after members left their seats to join the new president’s administration.
“We gave Johnson a slim majority, and then I said to make it harder for him, let me take two or three people, okay?” Trump commented.
At the start of the 119th Congress, Johnson was already facing the narrowest majority in the House in nearly 100 years. The margin is now even smaller after Mike Waltz, a Florida Republican, resigned from the House on Monday to serve as Trump’s national security adviser, a role that does not require Senate confirmation.
Trump also nominated Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a role that is subject to Senate confirmation.
If Stefanik is confirmed as expected, the House Republican majority would drop from 217 to 215.
This content was originally published in “Querido por todos”, says Trump about the president of the US House on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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