Mike Johnson managed to avoid a drawn-out battle for the speakership on Friday. His headaches are just getting started. While Johnson ultimately secured enough votes to remain speaker on the first ...

Mike Johnson managed to avoid a drawn-out battle for the speakership on Friday. His headaches are just getting started. While Johnson ultimately secured enough votes to remain speaker on the first ...

Shortly after being reelected as House Speaker, Mike Johnson read a prayer that he claimed was from Thomas Jefferson, despite there being no evidence the third president ever said it. In fact ...

Shortly after being reelected as House Speaker, Mike Johnson read a prayer that he claimed was from Thomas Jefferson, despite there being no evidence the third president ever said it. In fact, the ...

Despite staunch objections from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Johnson convinced the remainder of the Republican caucus that he could do the job. That being said, a faction of the GOP remains likely ...

After hours: January 8 at 6:28:07 PM EST ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) vowed Friday to “reduce the size and scope of the federal government” among several other commitments as he fights to keep his gavel this week. “If we don’t ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) succeeded in keeping his gavel for the 119th Congress, winning in the House’s Speakership vote in one round Friday. Johnson, who had a one-vote margin of error, won ...

However, with no margin for error, it doesn’t matter that Johnson has slightly fewer problem children than before. Provided that Democrats stick together, all it will take is two Republican ...