House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts Republicans could pick up seven or eight House seats in midterms, defying historical trends favoring opposition.

Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and buoyed with a nod of support from President-elect Donald Trump.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the Iran conflict has “put a little damper” on Republicans’ affordability efforts while insisting that President Trump “thinks about Americans’ financial situations.” Johnson made the comments when asked in a press conference Wednesday about Trump telling reporters the day before that Americans’ financial situations are not motivating him “even a

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) suggested Senate Republicans might drop a controversial proposal to provide $1 billion for President Donald Trump's ballroom. Johnson noted the Senate bill is still in "draft form" and still needs to go through several layers of review.

Mike Johnson’s speakership is somewhat different from all these. His overriding project has been to cede whatever power and decision-making he can to the White House, and this has, in turn, given shape to an unusual legacy, one defined by impotence.

"Grown-ups don't throw tantrums when they don't get their way."