The Trump loyalist vowed to enact "drastic" government cuts, pushing Republican holdouts to back him in a razor-thin election ...

Republican Mike Johnson narrowly won reelection Friday as House speaker on a first ballot, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts in a tense standoff and buoyed by a nod of support from President-elect ...

WASHINGTON — Republican Mike Johnson narrowly won reelection Friday to the House speakership on a first ballot, overcoming ...

Speaker Mike Johnson will lead his party through the new Congress, and while he won the gavel on the first ballot, it took some wrangling from President-Elect Trump to get at least two holdouts on ...

The selection of the House speaker at the start of a new Congress is meant to be perfunctory step in a largely ceremonial day, but Republicans of the 119th Congress made Mike Johnson and Donald Trump ...

Mike Johnson initially failed his first test to retain power over a super-slim GOP majority on Friday after three Republicans ...

Republican Mike Johnson narrowly won re-election to the House Speakership. WGN's Shannon Halligan tells us how the speaker ...

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson reclaimed his gavel on the first day of the 119th Congress on Friday. Initially there appeared to be some Republican holdouts, but Johnson, R-La., won the ...

Speaker Mike Johnson narrowly avoided a painful and prolonged fight to keep his post, but his messy victory showed how ...

President-elect Trump called Ralph Norman during a round of golf Friday to convince Norman to vote for Mike Johnson as ...

Two-term Rep. Keith Self is a member of the House Freedom Caucus and initially voted against Mike Johnson for speaker of the House.

Trump was apparently on the golf course, mid-round, when he spoke to two GOP lawmakers who initially voted against having Johnson serve another term as House speaker.