House rebels ignore Trump as Johnson faces ouster threat

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Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) hoped Donald Trump could head off a brewing effort to remove him as House speaker. 

But he is learning the limits of the former president’s power in an unruly and divided House where even a single Republican defection could prove fatal to his early speakership.

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