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How Mike Johnson doused a GOP dumpster fire
The speaker spent months keeping flare-ups from growing into a conflagration even Donald Trump couldn’t extinguish.
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'Considerable changes': Mike Johnson's budget victory lap rained on by skeptical senators
House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) took a victory lap in a speech Thursday in which he cheered President Donald ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson stresses importance of Memorial Day deadline as 'historic' budget bill heads for revote
Speaker Mike Johnson expressed optimism that the budget bill would reach the House floor before Memorial Day as lawmakers ...
Key House Committee Advances Trump’s Budget Bill After Conservative Holdouts Secure Tweaks
La., said some tweaks had been made to the bill that failed to pass on Friday but claimed they were just “minor modifications ...
Speaker Mike Johnson's bluff-calling strategy reaches its limit: From the Politics Desk
Speaker Mike Johnson’s run of smooth sailing came to an abrupt end when he faced his first tangible setback on a massive ...
Fiscal hawks sink ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ during House budget vote despite Trump unity plea
House Republicans failed to pass the “one big beautiful bill” out of the Budget Committee on Friday after leadership was ...
Critical meeting between White House and GOP holdouts over spending bill
Pres. Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson are making a last ditch effort to pressure House Republican holdouts to pass a bill full ...