Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday met with members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus as his bid for the speakership in the next Congress hangs in the balance.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) barely won reelection as House Speaker in the first ballot cast by representatives to determine who will lead the lower chamber in the next congressional cycle.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) kept his gavel amid a threat from the right flank of the House GOP, but managing the House GOP is not going to get any easier from here. The dramatic Friday Speaker ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., narrowly held onto the gavel in a nail-biter vote on Friday afternoon. Republicans eager to swear in President-elect Trump later this month and capitalize on ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday defied his most conservative critics to retain his gavel in the next Congress, overcoming threats from a group of far-right lawmakers leery of his leadership ...

Ralph Norman (R-SC) and Keith Self (R-TX), the pair flipped their votes, giving Johnson the 218 he needed to be reelected. Johnson offered assurances to lawmakers to help secure their backing ...

WASHINGTON − House Speaker Mike Johnson won back his job for another term on Friday after a nail-biter finish and now has the daunting task of trying to unify a fractured but potentially ...

Mike Johnson initially came up short in his bid to remain speaker on the first ballot, but his allies are optimistic they can flip some of the three GOP votes against him in subsequent ballots.

WASHINGTON – House Republicans gave Mike Johnson the speaker's gavel on Friday – along with a warning. Nine GOP lawmakers at first either abstained from voting for Johnson or voted for a ...

Speaker-designate Mike Johnson, R-La., was re-elected to lead the House of Representatives on Friday despite losing one fellow Republican in the final vote tally. Ultimately, Rep. Thomas Massie ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s allies are leaning into a key argument in a bid to avoid a chaotic floor fight over the gavel on Friday: A vote against Johnson could delay the finalization of ...