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House Speaker Mike Johnson's victory came with a warning from hardline Republicans
House Republicans gave Mike Johnson the speaker's gavel on Friday – along with a warning. Nine GOP lawmakers at first either abstained from voting for Johnson or voted for a different person for speaker.
House Speaker Mike Johnson Implements Nancy Mace’s Trans Bathroom Ban After All
The policy was left out of last week’s proposed package but Rep. Johnson quietly included the ban in the final rules.
Why the speaker vote should still worry Mike Johnson
But Johnson is also in trouble because many of the key votes ostensibly for him look more like votes for the Republican agenda in spite of him. After the vote, leaders of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of about three dozen right-wing,
Mike Johnson wins the battle for House speaker | The Excerpt
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Mike Johnson wins reelection as House speaker in dramatic vote to open new Congress
House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared headed for defeat before two Republicans switched their vote, delivering him a majority.
Mike Johnson narrowly reelected House speaker on first ballot: How the news unfolded
Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and buoyed with a nod of support from President-elect Donald Trump.
How Mike Johnson pulled out a 2nd term as House speaker -- with Donald Trump's help
Mike Johnson secured the gavel in dramatic fashion, as he was on track to lose before two Republican defectors changed their vote after speaking to Donald Trump.
Speaker Mike Johnson maintains House transgender bathroom ban
Speaker Mike Johnson maintained a policy that will bar transgender people from using single-sex facilities that align with their gender identities in the House.
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.
Speaker Mike Johnson quietly enacts ‘cruel’ anti-transgender bathroom ban in U.S. House of Representatives
After South Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace made a spectacle of transgender people’s access to bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol at the end of the 118th Congress last year, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has quietly announced a rule restricting bathroom usage in the 119th Congress.
Mike Johnson Roasted Over What Could Be His Most Ironic Boast Yet
Social media users responded with a stark reminder after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) positively talked up Tuesday ...
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The Hard Right Isn’t Mike Johnson’s Biggest Problem Anymore
Ever since Republicans took back control of the U.S. House in 2022, their biggest concern has been the unruly hard-right ...
Speaker Mike Johnson says Trump is the coach calling plays. But what if coach changes his mind?
House Speaker Mike Johnson often says he sees himself as the quarterback and President-elect Donald Trump as the coach ...
The problem(s) with Mike Johnson’s dubious Thomas Jefferson quote
The problem is not just that Republican officials keep peddling fake quotes from the Founding Fathers. The problem is also ...
Mike Johnson Gives Update on Plans for Social Security
Without any changes to the program, the fund is set to run out of money for full payments by as early as 2035.
Johnson vows to put ICC prosecutor Karim Khan ‘back in his place’
The ICC is actually equating Israel and Hamas, even as Hamas still holds Israelis and American hostages. It is just absurd,” ...
Mike Johnson touts new GOP agenda under Trump: ‘We’re going to be dismantling the deep state’
Fresh off his reelection as speaker, Mike Johnson hyped up Republicans’ ambitious agenda for the new year and pledged to take ...
Mike Johnson plans to use reconciliation to circumvent Democrats on debt limit fight
The debt limit fight arose in mid-December after President-elect Donald Trump demanded at the eleventh hour that Republicans ...