Former President Donald Trump has come to House Speaker Mike Johnson's defense, as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., pushes for the Louisiana Republican's ouster from the leadership position. "Well, look, we have a majority of one, OK?" Trump told radio host John Fredericks on Monday. "It’s not like he can go and do whatever he wants to do. I think he’s a very good person. You know, he stood very strongly with me on NATO when I said NATO has to pay up It’s a tough situation when you have. I...
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Director of House Operations Hannah Fraher had a Never Trump conniption, emails obtained by Breitbart News show.
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., announced his support for a motion to vacate Johnson on Friday. He was outraged over Johnson putting money for Ukraine's 'purposeless' fight against Russia on the House floor without border security measures attached
In 2018, the Daily Beast published an article titled “Meet the Double Agent Who Now Controls House Conservatives,” in reference to now-Speaker Mike Johnson. The article alleges that Johnson was a “mole” for the House Freedom Caucus to infiltrate the larger Republican congressional groups, and with the way things have been going, Glenn Beck is wondering if there’s a chance the article may have been right. Christopher Bedford, Blaze Media's new Washington correspondent and senior politics...
Twice in the last few weeks, Donald Trump has reached out to demonstrate his support for embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). At a Mar-a-Lago meeting with the speaker on April 11, he acknowledged how tough Johnson's job is with such a slim majority.
In last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments regarding former President Donald Trump’s assertion of “total immunity” for acts committed as president, conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch each considered questions outside the court’s proper purview. Except perhaps at the very margins, they should not base their decisions on those questions or the […]
To the editor: In a remarkable moment of clarity, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) seemed to realize his choice was between dooming GOP control of the House in the 2024 elections by maintaining legislative paralysis, or dooming Donald Trump's candidacy by resolving the issues on which Trump has claimed the big problems can't be solved until he is back in office. ("The House passes billions in aid for Ukraine and Israel after months of struggle," April 20) Johnson did this with a courageous and...
WASHINGTON — A third House Republican has signed onto an effort to oust Speaker Mike Johnson from power, giving his opponents the votes they would need to remove the Republican leader unless Democrats step in to save him. Rep. Paul Gosar, of Arizona, signed onto the "motion to vacate" authored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, both Republicans said Friday. If brought to the floor as a privileged resolution, it would force a vote within two legislative days on whether to oust Johnson as...
Wade Miley will undergo Tommy John surgery and miss the remainder of the Milwaukee Brewers' 2024 season after suffering a torn UCL in his left elbow.
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s attempt to sway conservatives to vote for his foreign aid package by presenting a separate border security bill ran into wary conservatives, but he will get a second chance on the House floor on Saturday.
Rep. Thomas Massie said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is preparing to pass a rule for the foreign aid package using Democrats.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has rejected a plan to change the rule that allows GOP rebels to kick him out as speaker.