Matt Gaetz was right—lawmakers did reelect Mike Johnson as speaker of the House on the first ballot on Friday. But that’s not to say that the Louisiana Republican’s path back to the gavel ...

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to avoid the same ... drawn-out floor fight for the speaker’s gavel. A small band of right-wing rabble-rousers is threatening to derail ...

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 ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared headed for defeat before two Republicans switched their vote, delivering him a majority.

The alliance between Speaker Mike Johnson and President-elect Donald Trump may prove to be the most important relationship in Washington.

is predicting that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will remain in the top job for six years. The forecast from Gingrich — who wielded the gavel from 1995-99 — comes days after Johnson was ...

On Capitol Hill, House Speaker Mike Johnson squeaked through a win, retaining his gavel on Friday, after Donald Trump called two Republican lawmakers to ask them to change their votes to support ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) kept his gavel amid a threat from the right flank of the House GOP, but managing the House GOP is not going to get any easier from here. The dramatic Friday Speaker ...

Speaker Mike Johnson was sitting inside Mar-a-Lago on ... up-and-down fight to keep his grasp on the speaker’s gavel. Two days later, Roy would grudgingly vote for Johnson, and Trump would ...

But Johnson is also in trouble because many of the key votes ostensibly for him look more like votes for the Republican agenda in spite of him. After the vote, leaders of the House Freedom Caucus, a ...

Johnson’s weak grip on the gavel has threatened not only his ... and was on the phone during the vote to secure the outcome. “Mike will be a Great Speaker, and our Country will be the ...