President-elect Donald Trump praised a revised government funding bill on Thursday ... 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."

President-elect Donald Trump is forcing Mike Johnson (R-LA) into a speakership-defining moment on the debt limit, inserting a loyalty test into an already tenuous fight over government funding. Trump expects Congress to raise,

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.

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)

After days of threats and demands, Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal.

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.

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.

Sen. Mike Lee predicts that House Speaker Mike Johnson will not remain speaker, calling for Elon Musk or Vivek Ramaswamy to fill the role next.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on X: "Elon Musk ordered his puppet President-elect and House Republicans to break the bipartisan agreement reached to keep the government open. House Republicans are abdicating their responsibility to the American people and siding with billionaires and special interests."

legislators exclusively told Raw Story Friday that party leaders were negotiating through the “chaos” created by President-elect Donald Trump and his allies who sunk a deal that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) spent weeks brokering — making his ...