At least one House Republican has said he will vote against Johnson. The speaker can lose only two GOP votes and still survive.
EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Donald Trump told Fox News Digital that House Speaker Mike Johnson will “easily remain speaker" for the next Congress if he “acts decisively and tough" and eliminates “all of the traps being set by Democrats" in the spending package.
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s fate may well depend on whether he can stay in President-elect Donald Trump’s good graces.
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.
Kentucky's Thomas Massie said he will not support Johnson's re-election bid, with others undecided amid funding bill fallout.
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 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 figure suggests that Trump will struggle to make any significant changes to the program without alienating his supporters.
President-elect Donald Trump praised a revised government funding bill on Thursday after he and billionaire Elon Musk torpedoed an initial bipartisan agreement. "SUCCESS in Washington!" Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social. "Speaker Mike Johnson and the House have come to a very good Deal for the American People."
A government shutdown at risk, House Speaker Mike Johnson is fighting to figure out how to meet President-elect Donald Trump’s sudden demands — and keep his own job.
President-elect Donald Trump has long supported House Speaker Mike Johnson — hosting him on election night, bringing him to the Army-Navy college football game last weekend and backing him privately despite conservative complaints about the House’s actions.