While House speaker is expected to ride out pressure from MAGA Republicans to vacate his role, here are some likely replacements.
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson said that he jokingly asked Elon Musk if he wanted to take over his job — after the billionaire helped torpedo a major government spending bill on ...
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The future of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) could be in jeopardy in the new year. House Republicans will have a razor-thin majority when lawmakers are sworn in Jan. 3. Their first vote will be electing a leader, and there are already some signs Speaker Johnson could face a challenge.
After the Republican-led Congress passes a government spending bill but rejects a last-minute demand for a debt limit suspension from President-elect Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk,
The speaker's push for a short-term government funding bill met louder resistance than usual from Republicans in the House.
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said it feels as if tech billionaire Elon Musk has become the United States’s prime minister. Gonzales joined CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where host Margaret Brennan asked him about the “confusing” dynamic between President-elect Trump,
Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones spoke to Trump and reported that the president-elect is not bothered by Democratic taunts that Elon Musk is the President.
A bipartisan spending bill to avert a government shutdown was vanquished after Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump ... saying they’d be “primaried.” House Speaker Mike Johnson—who earlier defended the spending bill—scrapped it.
Senator Rand Paul has suggested that Elon Musk could replace Mike Johnson as House Speaker following a backlash over a bipartisan government funding bill. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the Kentucky Republican said: "The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress.
Following calls from some with in the Republican caucus for Elon Musk to replace Johnson as House Speaker, Johnson's slim majority could put his speakership in jeopardy.
Mike Johnson's wrangling to prevent a government shutdown angered Democrats to his left and Republicans to his right, putting his gavel in peril.