the speaker

While this kind of debate doesn’t usually impose a time limit on MPs’ contributions, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear the Speaker encourage MPs to remember that plenty of others want to speak too.

The speaker of the House, the man second in line to the presidency — Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana — had to photobomb the much-shared shot taken aboard the so-called Trump Force One airplane last weekend.

When Johnson rose from relative obscurity to the Speaker position, one of the few pieces of information that journalists dug up was that he had been in a documentary about "purity balls" in 2015.

And if his allies in the Senate try to thwart him, there’s always the House, where the Trump team believes that the speaker could assist them in bypassing the upper chamber, should it be necessary, and relying on recess appointments.

“The speaker of the House is not involved in that—can’t be involved in that,” he told reporters.