Two key House votes show that even a lightweight like Mike Johnson has the juice to enact Trump’s smash-and-grab agenda.

Even residents of House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) deep-red congressional district are voicing their displeasure with ...

Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who are both from Louisiana, said Trump personally played a big role in ...

The band of far-right rebels supported a budget plan with a massive debt limit hike and a status-quo bill to keep the government open, two things they've long been fiercely against.

The fate of this bill now rests in the Senate. Democrats are in a politically risky decision because they don’t want to be ...

House Republicans hold together to avoid a government shutdown, put Senate Democrats on the spot.

NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Melanie Zanona reports from Vinton, Louisiana, on how Speaker Mike Johnson’s constituents ...

With a shutdown deadline approaching, Democrats want a continuing resolution to extend government funding through April 11.

Senate Democrats are staking out their positions on a bill to temporarily fund the government, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which would avert a federal shutdown.

Friends of Ireland luncheon at the Capitol with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, the president talked up the “unstoppable spirit of ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Republicans lack the votes in the upper chamber to pass their plan to avert ...

A vote to shut down the government would have harmed the minority party more.