Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he was pressing forward with a vote Thursday morning on the party’s “one big, beautiful bill” full of President Trump’s legislative agenda, holding a joint appearance with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) in a bid to convince conservative holdouts the two chambers were on the same page regarding spending cuts. During the brief remarks, Johnson asserted he had the votes, committing to including at least $1.5 trillion in spending cuts in the party’s ultimate Trump agenda bill — a key ask of lawmakers on...

DORAL, Fla. — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is staring out at a minefield as he looks to pass a sprawling tax and immigration package that pleases all corners of the ideologically diverse Republican Party, a thorny task made even tougher after President Trump laid out a lofty set of demands for the legislation. During the House GOP retreat at Trump National Doral on Monday, the president said he wants the bill to complete construction of the border wall, appropriate funding for “a record increase” in border security personnel and retention...

DORAL, Fla. — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a Tuesday interview with The Hill’s Emily Brooks floated the possibility of working with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling instead of including it in the GOP’s reconciliation package, which Republicans hope to pass in a party-line vote. “No final decision yet, but part of the decision matrix is that we’re looking at the pros and cons of those various angles,” Johnson said when asked if he has decided how to handle the thorny issue. “I was originally thinking that we would...

The U.S. Capitol Police arrested a man with Molotov cocktails and knives who was allegedly attempting to kill House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and President Trump’s two recently confirmed nominees, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Ryan English, who traveled from Massachusets to Washington, turned himself into a Capitol Police officer on Monday near the south door of the building, prosecutors said in court documents. Officers said they found a folding knife “as well as two destructive devices from the inside pockets of ENGLISH’s jacket” when they...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is keeping the door open to conditioning California disaster aid on the state enacting voter identification laws, days after President Trump said he wanted to link the two priorities. The comments from Johnson came during a press conference at Trump National Doral in Miami on Monday, which served as the kickoff event for the House GOP’s annual retreat. Asked if linking voter ID to California disaster aid was a “red line,” Johnson stopped short, but signaled that he was open to combining the two matters. “We’ve...

The Senate is set to churn through more of President Trump’s cabinet nominees this week, with a handful of his controversial picks set to field questions during their confirmation hearings. Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to be director of national intelligence; Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to lead the department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to be FBI director, will all appear before relevant committees this week for hearings that could turn tense as senators ask about their past comments, various stances and visions...