House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was warned Tuesday that, just because a faction of Democrats caved on the government shutdown, his path to getting the House up and running smoothly again is still fraught with peril.

House Speaker Mike Johnson decided to quickly schedule a House vote on an effort to force the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein case files once the calculation was made that it couldn’t be stopped.

The House on Wednesday voted to reopen the federal government — ending the record-long shutdown and sending the measure to President Trump’s desk for his signature. Lawmakers voted

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday he will bring a bill to the House floor next week requiring the Justice Department to release all of its files related

The federal government may be open, but the House of Representatives is closed for business. Again. The record-shattering 43-day-long shutdown coincided with an impromptu 53-day vacation for House Republicans.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is set to address reporters on Monday morning after the Senate voted 60-40 late Sunday to advance a House-passed continuing resolution to reopen the government. That

The representative-elect and the state of Arizona sued Johnson in October 2025 over his refusal to swear her in.

The House speaker admits that his legislative chamber no longer matters. That’s the outcome of a series of deliberate leadership decisions to ensure its powerlessness.

Trump continued facing heightened scrutiny about his connections to Epstein after House Democrats released several emails from 2011 to 2019 in which Epstein discussed the president. The emails fueled questions about whether Trump knew anything about Epstein’s activities.