How House Speaker Mike Johnson became America’s “prime minister” [Video]

You’ve heard of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Well, how about U.S. Prime Minister Mike Johnson?

These are the political circumstances now facing House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. After all, he runs a “coalition government” in Congress.

We hear about so-called “coalition governments” in parliaments overseas all the time.

A coalition government exists when no party wins an outright majority of seats. Thus, various factions team up to form a “coalition” and anoint a prime minister.

Coalition governments are common in Japan. In the United Kingdom, former Prime Minister David Cameron of the Conservatives formed a coalition with Liberal Democrats. That ended a long run by Labour in the U.K. It was the first coalition government in Great Britain since the 1970s.

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The U.S. doesn’t have a parliamentary system, but the House of Representatives is practically functioning as a parliament. It’s a coalition government of lots of Democrats and various swaths of Republicans – depending on the issue. 

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