At least one House Republican has said he will vote against Johnson. The speaker can lose only two GOP votes and still survive.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s fate may well depend on whether he can stay in President-elect Donald Trump’s good graces.

A Republican congressman is speaking out in support of Mike Johnson as some colleagues continue to question the House Speaker's motives over the spending bill.

President-elect Donald Trump sided with Elon Musk in his opposition to House Speaker Mike Johnson 's bill to temporarily fund the government as Congress scrambles to pass a spending bill with only two days before the deadline to avoid a shutdown.

Kentucky's Thomas Massie said he will not support Johnson's re-election bid, with others undecided amid funding bill fallout.

With the funding deadline looming and his speakership on the line, Johnson faces a quixotic to-do list: negotiate a new funding bill to avert a government shutdown, address a list of asks by Trump and his allies — and then hope there are somehow enough House Republican votes so that he doesn’t have to rely on Democrats to pass it.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., right and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, are listen during a U.S. Capitol Hanukkah event with a ceremonial Menorah lighting to commemorate the upcoming eight-day festival of Hanukkah on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

President-elect Donald Trump isn’t joining calls from some in his party to replace House Speaker Mike Johnson at the start of the next Congress after the Louisiana Republican tanked a bipartisan deal to avert a government shutdown, apparently on orders from the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

The year 2024 will go down in history books as a sensational one politically. For just the second time in history, America is sending a former president back to the White House. Indiana elected its 52nd white,

US election - a primary election process that was all over by the end of January meant a pseudo-campaign that was staggeringly boring for six months, even with the former president on trial in a New York court room,

For the first time in U.S. history, a Florida man has won election as President of the United States. While Trump in his first term from 2017 to 2021 often treated Mar-a-Lago as his Winter White House, this election marked the first time he built and ran a political campaign headquartered in Palm Beach County.