Three potential alternate speaker candidates have come up in conversations among holdouts. But they don’t have the needed votes to become speaker, either.

As Johnson faces potentially a dozen holdouts or more going into the speakership vote on Friday, three familiar alternative ...

One Republican has already vowed to oppose him due to the spending fiasco, and he can’t afford to lose another due to his incredibly thin majority.

House conservatives are putting Speaker Mike Johnson on notice: He has work to do if he wants to keep his job. The Louisiana Republican is at his weakest point after he was caught between ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day before a potential government shutdown, the House resoundingly rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s new plan to fund operations and suspend the debt ceiling, as ...

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise told ABC News on Wednesday that lawmakers had a "productive" late-night meeting in the House Speaker Mike Johnson's office. "We are going to continue to work ...

Months of working to get the president-elect on his side didn’t fully protect the speaker from the president’s wrath over a funding bill.

“There is no new agreement right now, just, you know, obviously looking at a number of options,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told reporters after the second budget deal was defeate ...

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Republicans are not currently planning to try to bring the bill up through a longer regular rule process, which would require near-unified GOP ...