House Republicans scrapped a vote to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda after it was clear Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) did not have the GOP support needed to pass it on Wednesday night.

After huddling with a band of fiscal hawks who want a guarantee on deeper spending cuts, Johnson emerged from the meeting telling reporters they will aim to try again on Thursday.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is scrambling to break the impasse over the push to allow proxy voting for new parents, as the standoff between GOP leadership and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) hardens.

A band of nine Republicans, led by Luna, joined with Democrats Tuesday to torpedo a vote on a procedural rule that included language to thwart the proxy voting effort, halting unrelated key legislative business on the House floor and prompting leadership to send lawmakers home for the week.

House Speaker Mike Johnson's chief of staff, Hayden Haynes, was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of driving under the influence after President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress. 

NBC News first reported details of the arrest, saying Haynes was given a citation to appear in court. Asked to confirm the report, U.S. Capitol Police said a driver backed into a parked vehicle near the Capitol around 11:40 p.m. and was taken into custody...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said his GOP majority is likely to censure Democratic Rep. Al Green for disrupting President Trump’s joint address to Congress. 

Mr. Green, Texas Democrat, stood up during the first few minutes of the address Tuesday night and shook his cane at the president in response to Mr. Trump declaring he has a mandate from voters to carry out his agenda.

“You have no mandate,” Mr. Green shouted. 

On Tuesday evening, as Speaker Mike Johnson faced mounting GOP opposition to his budget resolution that would set in motion President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda, Indiana Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz huddled at the back of the chamber with other GOP holdouts.

At one point, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler and Rep. Tom Emmer backed Spartz and her fellow rebel Rep. Thomas Massie against a wall.

Mike Johnson has about 12 hours to get his conference behind his plan for enacting the president’s sweeping agenda. It’s not looking good.

The speaker insists he’s not changing the budget resolution, which would set parameters for a sweeping bill to address border security, energy and tax policy. If House Democrats are at full attendance, just two GOP “no” votes would sink the resolution.

Donald Trump is relying on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to make his policy dreams come true at the same time he is privately sniping at the House Republican while leaving him hanging trying to muscle a new budget deal into existence.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Johnson is bearing the "weight" of the president's expectations and, should he fail, he will receive no sympathy from the White House.

Speaker Mike Johnson muscled his budget blueprint through committee. That will likely be the easy part.

Despite President Joe Biden’s former directive that U.S. flags would be flown at half-staff during President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration day—a continuation of mourning after the death of former President Jimmy Carter—several Republicans have pledged to fly their flags at full-staff.

In honor of Carter—who died on Dec. 29, 2024, aged 100—Biden proclaimed that flags at government buildings should be flown at half-staff “as an expression of public sorrow” for 30 days—a period of time that would have included Trump’s inauguration on Monday, Jan. 20.