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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON − House Speaker Mike Johnson won back his job for another term on Friday after a nail-biter finish and now has the daunting task of trying to unify a fractured but potentially ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was reelected to the top post in the House in a stunning floor vote on the opening day of Congress on Friday, securing the gavel on the first ballot. But the vote did ...

Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House. For now. After a handful of hard-right Republicans held out on Friday, he was reelected, winning them over not with his own personal charm but with the muscle ...

Speaker chosen: Mike Johnson was re-elected speaker of the House on Friday after flipping two GOP opponents following an intervention by President-elect Donald Trump, but he’ll face a big ...

The speaker election was on track to get deadlocked after a small handful of House Republicans rebelled against Johnson's candidacy, until two holdouts flipped their votes at the last second Kyler ...

While the high-stakes fight to lead the House of Representatives is over, Speaker Mike Johnson’s politically ... goals to the negotiations. A recent model produced by the Economic Policy ...

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 ...

While House Republicans were critical of Johnson in recent weeks, President-elect Donald Trump backed his continued speakership. Johnson's win in a first ballot vote on Friday demonstrated that ...

With two Republican lawmakers standing between Mike Johnson and the speaker’s gavel, President-elect Donald Trump picked up the phone. From the golf course Friday afternoon, he spoke to Reps.

Actor Dakota Johnson prefers a simplistic beauty routine when she's not on screen, and she seems to be perfectly happy ...