(CNN) — 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 ...

WASHINGTON — Republican Mike Johnson narrowly won reelection Friday to the House speakership on a first ballot, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts after a tense standoff and buoyed by a nod of ...

(CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson’s allies are leaning into a key argument in a bid to avoid a chaotic floor fight over the gavel on Friday: A vote against Johnson could delay the ...

Washington (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson faces a major challenge in the new Congress: the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years. In a dramatic turn of events, Johnson managed to retain the ...

Washington (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson faces a tough fight to retain the gavel even after an endorsement from Donald Trump, a test of the president-elect’s influence over his party amid ...

President-elect Donald Trump backed House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in his campaign to hold on to the gavel, writing Monday on his social media platform that Johnson has his “Complete & Total ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is endorsing House Speaker Mike Johnson as he prepares to fight to keep his role leading Republicans in Congress. Trump said Monday in a ...

Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., attends a "Back the Blue," campaign rally in Congers, N.Y., on Friday, October 18, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) ...

In addition to presenting a challenge to the incoming Trump administration, which has preferred the debt ceiling issue be resolved by Inauguration Day, it is especially thorny for Johnson due to ...

A handful of conservative House Republicans were voicing concerns about Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to President-elect Trump even before last week’s government funding fiasco, multiple sources ...

Diontae Johnson will be contributing to an AFC playoff team after all – just not the Baltimore Ravens. The wide receiver was claimed by the Houston Texans on Monday, just three days after he was ...