Johnson, of Louisiana, has been working diligently to prevent defeat, spending New Year’s Day at Mar-a-Lago as he positions ...

Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and ...

Johnson faced an uphill battle in maintaining the speaker's gavel and eked out a win after initially coming up short.

La., told lawmakers that the president-elect backs one reconciliation bill, rather than two or more, two sources with direct knowledge told NBC News.

Johnson narrowly pushed past Republican holdouts in a tension-filled vote. Republican Mike Johnson was reelected House speaker on Friday, narrowly winning a showdown with his party's right-flank ...

But during an extended delay in which the House clerk held open the vote — and during which Republican Majority Whip Tom Emmer conceded that he expected a second ballot — GOP leadership scrambled to ...