Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is working to stay in the good graces of former President Donald Trump as he attempts to defuse a possible rebellion by his right flank in the House. Trump has repeatedly voiced support for Johnson as hard-liners, upset by a series of deals Johnson cut in the last month, weigh whether […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said his sons almost drowned after he had dinner with former President Trump at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida last fall, according to a new profile on Johnson by The Atlantic. The Speaker visited Palm Beach, Fla., the week of Thanksgiving for a fundraiser, and he and his sons had
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) explained his plan for
Many Republicans have warned against an ouster vote, fearing it could throw the House GOP conference into chaos yet again and pointing to the contentious weekslong fight for a new speaker after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted in an unprecedented vote last year as a cautionary tale.
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...
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has tried to build bridges between himself and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) since she first raised the threat to oust him as Speaker. However, Sunday, Greene renewed her vow to take him down.After initially threatening to bounce Johnson from his gig as the leader of House Republicans, Greene backed off and insisted that Republican lawmakers go home and listen to their constituents about it. This was also after Donald Trump publicly backed the...
House Democrats late Thursday helped advance a $95 billion foreign aid package in a rare move that salvaged federal money for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and bailed out embattled Speaker Mike Johnson.
The U.S. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, was the keynote speaker and spoke to WANE 15 about various issues surrounding the republican party.
Speaker Mike Johnson has transitioned to the "opposite direction" and is "not on the side of the field" that he hoped, Sen. Mike Lee said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Director of House Operations Hannah Fraher had a Never Trump conniption, emails obtained by Breitbart News show.
Author Herman Wouk captured well how to understand heroism. “Heroes are not supermen; they are good men who embody — by the cast of destiny — the virtue of their whole people in a great hour,” observed Wouk. We have today an American hero in the name of House Speaker Mike Johnson. Anyone with eyes open knows the world today is a very dangerous place. Johnson, a conservative Republican and a devout Christian, knows that the way for it to become even more dangerous is for the leader of the...
Author Herman Wouk captured well how to understand heroism. “Heroes are not supermen; they are good men who embody — by the cast of destiny — the virtue of their whole people in a great hour,” observed Wouk. We have today an American hero in the name of House Speaker Mike Johnson. Anyone with eyes open knows the world today is a very dangerous place. Johnson, a conservative Republican and a devout Christian, knows that the way for it to become even more dangerous is for the leader of the...