Speaker Mike Johnson had a difficult week.
He is facing a revolt from one of the most conservative members of his caucus that could cost him his job.
And it took three tries for the House to renew a warrantless surveillance bill.
“I stand with the speaker,” former President Donald J. Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Palm Beach, Fla., as Mr. Johnson stood behind him and nodded along.
It was a message the speaker needed at a tenuous moment in his leadership, when he faces the threat from one of Mr. Trump’s most loyal allies, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, of a motion to oust him.
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