Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) said Sunday he doesn’t think Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) would have been reelected to his leadership post without the backing of President-elect Trump. “Donald Trump ...

Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Keith Self of Texas and convinced them to ultimately fall in line behind Johnson. Without a vote to spare, the Louisiana Republican won his bid to retain the ...

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson (Republican of Louisiana) pounds the gavel in the House Chamber before Representatives cast a vote that would re-elect him Speaker the US ...

(CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson informed Republicans at a closed-door meeting Saturday that Donald Trump favored moving his agenda as one sweeping package, according to sources in attendance ...

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to avoid the same fate that his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, experienced two years ago: an embarrassing, drawn-out floor fight for the speaker ...

Rep. Victoria Spartz, one of a handful of House Republicans who could deny Speaker Mike Johnson the gavel in the new Congress on Friday, is seeking changes to the budget process before she decides ...

The House is set to vote Friday on whether to re-elect Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., as speaker—and while President-elect Donald Trump’s endorsement should pave the way to his re-election ...

Two weeks ago, NBC News asked Donald Trump whether he still had confidence in House Speaker Mike Johnson. “We’ll see,” the president-elect replied. In the days that followed, Trump let the ...

Speaker Mike Johnson’s historically narrow majority just shrunk even further, creating a major challenge for congressional Republicans as they seek to enact President Donald Trump’s agenda.

(CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson’s allies are leaning into ... Congress has never before tried to certify a presidential election without a House speaker in place. Even senior Republicans ...