Mike Johnson Elected House Speaker After Republican Holdouts Change Their Votes in the First Round
Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson was narrowly reelected as House speaker on Friday, Jan. 3, after a small handful of House Republicans who opposed his candidacy changed their votes at the last second
Mike Johnson's speakership to be put to another test in 1st vote of new Congress
House Speaker Mike Johnson stares down a difficult battle to retain the gavel on Friday, even despite an endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump.
Republican Mike Johnson reelected House speaker in dramatic floor vote
Republican Mike Johnson has narrowly won reelection to the House speakership on a dramatic first-ballot vote, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts in a tense standoff
Johnson faces tough road on Trump agenda after dramatic Speaker vote
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 vote on the House floor – in which three Republicans nearly kept Johnson from the gavel before two of
Republican Mike Johnson narrowly wins re-election to House Speakership
Republican Mike Johnson narrowly won re-election to the House Speakership. WGN's Shannon Halligan tells us how the speaker was able to flip the holdouts.
Mike Johnson reelected House speaker, winning over GOP critics
Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot Friday, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and buoyed with a nod of support from President-elect Donald Trump. A collection of hardline Republicans convened in the back of the House chamber during a tense roll call on the first day of the new Congress,
Hosted on MSN17d
New spending bill to avert shutdown fails despite Trump and Musk's MAGA seal of approval
An 11th-hour spending bill that would avert a holiday ... The GOP, which needed 290 "yes" votes to pass the bill, ...
Watch: House votes on spending bill
The House is slated to vote on the revamped government spending bill Thursday evening. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) initially proposed the continuing resolution Tuesday evening, but was met with ...
Transport Topics16d
House Passes Spending Plan Hours Before Shutdown Deadline
The House on Dec. 20 passed a spending bill that will keep the government ... to suspend the U.S. national debt limit. The final vote tally was 366 in favor and 34 against, with one member ...
Yahoo Finance17d
Trump-Approved Spending Plan Goes Down in Flames
signaling that any effort to pass the bill under regular order could also fail. The vote tally was 174-235, 197 Democrats and a stunning 38 Republicans voting against the bill. Two Democrats ...
Trump’s first year will be filled with fiscal follies
But that year-end legislative battle may foretell further fiscal chaos in 2025, including the risk of another downgrade of US debt. Donald Trump will take office on January 20 with his fellow ...
House passes bill to fund US government in crucial step towards averting shutdown
House Republicans have failed in their efforts to pass a new short-term spending bill. The bill would have averted a US ...
US Senate advances massive defense bill, despite transgender provision
The U.S. Senate on Monday voted overwhelmingly to advance an $895 billion bill setting policy for the Pentagon toward passage ...