Social media users responded with a stark reminder after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) positively talked up Tuesday about the speed and relative ease with which Congress had a day earlier certified President-elect Donald Trump ’s 2024 election victory over Democratic rival Kamala Harris.

Republican Mike Johnson won the barest of victories on Friday, Jan. 3, when 218 U.S. House representatives voted to re-up his term as speaker to start the 119th Congress. While Johnson was officially reelected on the first ballot,

Ever since Republicans took back control of the U.S. House in 2022, their biggest concern has been the unruly hard-right members of the House Freedom Caucus, who have exploited narrow margins of control to keep pressure on their colleagues to obey their wishes.

House Speaker Mike Johnson often says he sees himself as the quarterback and President-elect Donald Trump as the coach calling plays on their legislative priorities as Republicans take power in Washington.

The policy was left out of last week’s proposed package but Rep. Johnson quietly included the ban in the final rules.

Johnson could face difficulty in passing President-elect Donald Trump's agenda, according to political analysts.

Johnson, of Louisiana, has been working diligently to prevent defeat, spending New Year’s Day at Mar-a-Lago as he positions himself alongside Trump. The speaker often portrays himself as the “quarterback” who will be executing the political plays called by the “coach,” the president-elect.

House Speaker Mike Johnson got a taste of what life in the 119th Congress will be like as he wrestles with a historically narrow majority.

The debt limit fight arose in mid-December after President-elect Donald Trump demanded at the eleventh hour that Republicans include it in the government spending deal.

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) in the House Chamber of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. (Graeme Jennings / Washington Examiner) However, it wasn’t enough for the three ...

After South Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace made a spectacle of transgender people’s access to bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol at the end of the 118th Congress last year, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has quietly announced a rule restricting bathroom usage in the 119th Congress.