House Speaker Mike Johnson often says he sees himself as the quarterback and President-elect Donald Trump as the coach calling plays on their legislative priorities.
House Speaker Mike Johnson laid out the timeline for a reconciliation bill during an appearance on a Sunday morning news show.
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threw House Speaker Mike Johnson a political lifeline by endorsing the Louisiana Republican ahead of a House vote to elect a new speaker.
Johnson, a Republican from north Louisiana, is pushing a single bill using a parliamentary maneuver called “budget reconciliation,” challenging the two-bill strategy pursued by a pair of Senate Republicans, Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota, and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Speaker Mike Johnson was sitting inside Mar-a-Lago on New Year's Day, talking legislative strategy with President-elect Donald Trump, when the conversation turned to the troublesome conservative hardliners who might trip up the Republican agenda — and one in particular, Rep. Chip Roy.
After an initial burst of drama, the House voted to give Speaker Mike Johnson another term as the GOP prepares to take total control of Washington.
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday gave his blessing to Mike Johnson in the pending race for House speaker, according to social media.
Trump took to his social media platform soon after the vote Friday, which returned Johnson to the speaker's chair after initially coming up short of votes on the first ballot. But Representatives Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Keith Self of Texas changed their votes to support Johnson after first voting against him.
An interview with congressional scholar Norm Ornstein, who explains how Trump is already signaling how he’ll put GOP lawmakers in a brutally impossible situation—and why Trump-GOP rule will likely imp
Nancy Mace got Trump on the phone to persuade holdout Republicans to support Mike Johnson’s speakership, according to The Washington Post. After Republicans Ralph Norman and Keith Self initially opposed Johnson,