
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), a member of the Armed Services Committee, was elected as the new speaker of the House on Wednesday. In a letter to his GOP colleagues earlier this week, Johnson laid out a plan for the lower chamber to continue moving forward on appropriations bills and aiming to pass the final version of the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in December, offering to propose another stopgap funding measure to keep the government open through…