President-elect Donald Trump doubled down on his endorsement of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Friday morning, hours before a high-stakes House vote on whether to keep him in power.

The speaker’s election happens even before newly elected representatives are sworn in, and must be resolved before anything else can be addressed. By Maya C. Miller Before the new Congress can ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa’s Third Congressional District’s Congressman Zach Nunn ... two years ago was delayed by the longest vote for Speaker of the House since 1859. Speaker Kevin McCarthy ...

In a dramatic turn of events, lawmakers have elected Mike Johnson as House speaker on the first ballot. He now leads the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years. Key GOP detractors flipped ...

Photo: Christian Monterrosa/AFP/Getty Images House Republicans avoided humiliation on Friday as they managed to elect Mike Johnson as Speaker in the 119th Congress. But since these are Republicans ...

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 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa’s Third Congressional District’s Congressman Zach Nunn is back in ... but his first time being sworn in two years ago was delayed by the longest vote for Speaker of the House ...

Roughly a dozen hard-line House conservatives are demanding a host of amorphous commitments from Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to win their support Friday, throwing his leadership tenure into ...

One GOP defection in Friday's vote could decide if Johnson gets another term. After spending Thursday trying to sway Republican holdouts to back his bid to retain the speaker's gavel, Mike Johnson ...

• 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 ...