While House speaker is expected to ride out pressure from MAGA Republicans to vacate his role, here are some likely replacements.
Mike Johnson's wrangling to prevent a government shutdown angered Democrats to his left and Republicans to his right, putting his gavel in peril.
It took President-elect Donald Trump and his close confidant, Elon Musk, only about 24 hours to tank a stopgap funding bill presented by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) needed to keep the government open.
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,
Despite critics calling Musk "president," the billionaire cannot hold the highest office as he's not a natural-born citizen.
The billionaire is blowing up plans and taking names as he and the GOP-controlled House start to learn about working with each other.
Democrats in the Senate criticized Republicans for allowing Elon Musk to take on such an influential role, acting as a "shadow speaker" or "co-president."
Posts by Elon Musk on 'X' X-ed-out a bipartisan stopgap budget deal to fund the government and avoid a midnight Friday shut down deadline.
President-elect Donald Trump sided with Elon Musk in his opposition to House Speaker Mike Johnson 's bill to temporarily fund the government as Congress scrambles to pass a spending bill with only two days before the deadline to avoid a shutdown.
The speaker's push for a short-term government funding bill met louder resistance than usual from Republicans in the House.
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 ...