Johnson faced an uphill battle in maintaining the speaker's gavel and didn't manage to secure the votes he needed in an initial round of voting Friday.

Republicans may not have a functioning legislative majority by the time those fights begin. The GOP won 220 seats in November ...

Ghana's parliament has passed a provisional budget that allows the government to spend $4.65 billion through March, the ...

Incoming-President Trump's promise to dismantle the Department of Education could impact your student loans. Here's what you ...

It’s up to the Supreme Court whether the U.S. will join China, Afghanistan and other authoritarian countries that have barred ...

The federal debt limit has no practical value. This suggests that ending it would be a good idea. Yet the laws of unintended ...

President-elect Donald Trump threw his support behind Republican Mike Johnson amid a fight over House speakership that will ...

Trump praised Johnson as "a good, hard working, religious man" while endorsing his continued speakership on Monday.

President-elect Donald Trump is endorsing House Speaker Mike Johnson as he prepares to fight to keep his role leading ...

Democrats and some conservatives opposed the new funding bill, which was crafted after President-elect Donald Trump blew up an earlier bipartisan agreement.

Johnson tried to placate Trump by bringing up a slimmed-down, 116-page version of the bill on Thursday. It included disaster ...

President Biden has signed legislation passed by Congress on Friday to prevent a government shutdown, as questions shift to ...