A New Year and a New Drama at the Capitol With Speaker Vote

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, deputy congressional editor Mike Dorning breaks down tomorrow’s House speaker vote and heightened security around Washington. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

Mike Johnson starts the new year at the mercy of two of the most cantankerous members of his party. If he holds onto his job as House speaker, he’ll have to get used to it — and so will everyone else with interests riding on Republicans’ legislative agenda.