House Speaker Mike Johnson’s two-step plan to keep the government open beyond November 17 will face a major hurdle on the House floor this week, a critical moment for the new speaker who is ...

Speaker Mike Johnson bucked the House GOP’s right flank to pass a short-term federal funding bill on Thursday, setting up Congress to avoid a partial government shutdown. The bill, known as a ...

Speaker Johnson unveils new plan to avoid government shutdown 05:23. Washington — With an end-of-month deadline to avert a government shutdown approaching, House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled ...

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Mike Johnson’s proposal to fund the government is facing serious pushback from a handful of ultraconservative lawmakers, setting up yet another showdown within the ...

Speaker Mike Johnson is hoping to avert a government shutdown next week by peeling off enough Democratic support for a funding bill without the spending cuts that hardline GOPers are demanding ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) opted to expedite his stopgap funding proposal on Nov. 14 to avert a government shutdown, despite hard-right concerns.

Mike Johnson is again staring down a government shutdown — and his conference. The House speaker is juggling competing demands from his members while trying to strike a deal to keep the ...

Representative Mike Johnson unified House Republicans to vote for him as the new speaker. ... "He has the task ahead of him to not only try to avert a government shutdown, ...

While House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) may have yet again avoided a government shutdown, his speakership may be on the line with some Republicans already refusing to commit to supporting him come ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled an unusual short-term spending plan Saturday that would stave off a Nov. 17 government shutdown — and give the fractious Republican caucus more time to ...