While House speaker is expected to ride out pressure from MAGA Republicans to vacate his role, here are some likely replacements.
It took President-elect Donald Trump and his close confidant, Elon Musk, only about 24 hours to tank a stopgap funding bill presented by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) needed to keep the government open.
The speaker's push for a short-term government funding bill met louder resistance than usual from Republicans in the House.
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson said that he jokingly asked Elon Musk if he wanted to take over his job — after the billionaire helped torpedo a major government spending bill on ...
After the Republican-led Congress passes a government spending bill but rejects a last-minute demand for a debt limit suspension from President-elect Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk,
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said it feels as if tech billionaire Elon Musk has become the United States’s prime minister. Gonzales joined CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where host Margaret Brennan asked him about the “confusing” dynamic between President-elect Trump,
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The future of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) could be in jeopardy in the new year. House Republicans will have a razor-thin majority when lawmakers are sworn in Jan. 3. Their first vote will be electing a leader, and there are already some signs Speaker Johnson could face a challenge.
President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office next month, is using Elon Musk's wealth and influence to bully Congress. Controlling the levers of government is one of the benefits Musk expects to receive after spending $275 million to help get Trump reelected.
In Louisiana's 4th Congressional District, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson was reelected by a landslide on Election Night 2024 when he picked up more than 80 percent of the vote. But while that victory gave Johnson another two years in office,
President-elect Trump’s tough talk about Greenland and the Panama Canal shows that he’s most comfortable playing offense, even if nothing much comes of it.