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Scalise and Jordan seek House GOP leadership as Johnson bows out

CBS News reports on Republican succession plans, Jeffries's likely speakership and uncertainty over Schumer's Senate leadership.

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What comes next as Democrats win House, Senate

Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan plan to seek the House Republican leadership position after Mike Johnson announced he would not pursue it in the next Congress, according to CBS News congressional correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns.

The succession plans give a concrete shape to the Republican response to losing control of Congress. In "What comes next as Democrats win House, Senate," Huey-Burns places the leadership changes alongside a broader question: how Republicans respond to public pushback against President Trump's policies and decide their direction beyond him. The report drew roughly 1.2 million views since yesterday.

For Democrats, winning both chambers does not settle every leadership question either. Huey-Burns reports that Hakeem Jeffries is likely to become the next House speaker, which would make him the first Black person to hold the office. That remains a prospective milestone, not a completed election.

In the Senate, she says there are questions about whether the Democratic caucus will select Chuck Schumer to continue as its leader. The report distinguishes the party's congressional victory from the choices its members still have to make about who leads them in January.