Kingmaker Trump Congratulates New Speaker Mike Johnson
Donald Trump congratulated new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for winning the Speaker’s gavel Wednesday, one day after the president put the final nail in the coffin of Rep. Tom Emmer’s (R-MN) bid.
Donald Trump congratulated new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for winning the Speaker’s gavel Wednesday, one day after the president put the final nail in the coffin of Rep. Tom Emmer’s (R-MN) bid.
Rep. Mike Johnson is the 56th Speaker of the House, ending a long Republican nightmare as several more potentially loom.
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), a fourth-term conservative who is currently the vice chairman of the House GOP conference, has the Speaker’s gavel within reach and seems to be on the brink of ascending into the presidential line of succession on Wednesday afternoon.
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) is the latest Republican Speaker nominee, winning only hours after Rep. Mike Emmer (R-MN) won the nomination and later withdrew in the face of deepening opposition.
Representative Ken Buck (R-CO) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports” that he was confident House Republicans will elect a speaker before the stopgap spending bill ends on November 17. Tur said, “What is going on with your party that the person
Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) dropped out of the Speaker race after his nomination’s inevitable collapse became apparent amid a large number of Republican holdouts.
Donald Trump said on Tuesday it would be a “tragic mistake” to vote for a “Globalist RINO” like Tom Emmer (R-MN) for House Speaker.
House Republicans’ opposition to House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) was worse than it was for House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) to become Speaker.
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) won the latest House Republican Speaker nomination Tuesday on the fifth ballot by a 117-97 vote.
House Republicans Tuesday begin voting on their next Speaker nomination in a new phase of the process which features eight candidates for the gavel.
Former President Donald Trump elevated attacks against House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) on Tuesday ahead of the House Republican Conference’s ballot to decide its next Speaker nominee.
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) on Sunday cheered House Majority Whip Tom Emmer’s (R-MN) bid for Speaker, saying it would be great to have a Minnesotan lead the House.
Seven Republicans have declared their candidacy for Speaker as Republicans struggle to find a path to claim the gavel ahead of a nomination deadline set for noon on Sunday.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) will not receive the votes to become Speaker of the House, Breitbart News has learned.
Rep. Ken Buck voted on Tuesday for House Majority Whip Tom Emmer for House Speaker without actually wanting Emmer to become Speaker.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer has formally ruled out a Speakership bid as House Republicans slowly but surely rally around Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the GOP conference nominee for Speaker, in the drawn out Speakership fight, as it enters its third week.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) is withdrawing from the race for Speaker of the House after a brutal day that saw him hemorrhage support from between 30 and 40 Republican colleagues.
House Republicans must choose a nominee for Speaker of the House, a daunting predicament that resurrects haunting memories of January’s embarrassing 15-round floor fight.
It’s no secret now that Matt Gaetz plans to try to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week in Congress, but what still is a secret is who he plans to put in McCarthy’s place if he were to succeed in the extremely long-shot goal.
Members of the House Financial Services Committee from both parties, including GOP whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) have written to the SEC urging the agency to stop blocking the approval of various cryptocurrency ETFs.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement on Tuesday that he backs Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) impeachment inquiry, saying “not even President Biden is above the law.”
House Republican Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement that New York Democrats are acknowledging that President Joe Biden’s policies have turned every community into a border community.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement on Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s latest blunder in Maui as the island reels from the devastating fire is as “predictable as a snowy Minnesota winter.”
Rep. Tom Emmer told Breitbart News that President Joe Biden “clearly lied” about his involvement in Hunter Biden’s business dealings.
Rep. Jim Jordan plays a pivotal role in the decision-making on if Congress will reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
House Republican Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that the many victories over the last six months of the Republican majority came from learning to work as a team.
House GOP leaders are rallying behind former Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) as she makes her congressional comeback bid, with a unified endorsement from all of House GOP leadership on the day she launched her campaign.
The House passed a sweeping border package Thursday that Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) said was the “strongest” legislation on the issue to ever come to the House floor for a vote.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) called on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to be impeached on Friday, saying the chief border official’s “failure to act” necessitates Congress removing him from his position.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and other top House Republicans raced Tuesday to lock down votes for a legislative package that would raise the debt ceiling while cutting spending that they believe will strengthen their negotiating position with Democrats as a standoff looms later this year.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) is confident Republicans’ sweeping bill to reduce spending will pass the House when it comes up for a vote and says that any votes against it would work to “empower” Democrats.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) tore into President Joe Biden during an interview with Breitbart News for sending mixed signals with the White House’s policy stances on recent bills.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) worked with roughly 20 outside groups in the leadup to Republicans narrowly passing the Parents Bill of Rights Act on Friday.
House Republican Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Breitbart News Saturday that with each victory, the House GOP Conference becomes more united.
U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy lit into leftist Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg at a press conference as House Republicans gathered to discuss and formulate their 2023 agenda plans, with looming likely charges from Bragg against former President Donald Trump coming this week.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) tore into President Joe Biden on Wednesday over the president’s plans to veto a resolution that would scrap the administration’s rule allowing investors to make environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations in retirement plans.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) on Wednesday introduced legislation to prevent the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), which he and others say could surveil Americans’ financial activity.
Republican officials slammed President Joe Biden and his “socialist agenda” while accusing him of “gaslighting Americans” over the acceleration of U.S. inflation in January despite efforts by the Federal Reserve to tame price hikes with higher interest rates.
Just over a quarter of Americans believe Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) should be permitted to serve on congressional committees, a recently released survey from The Economist/YouGov found.
The House voted Thursday along party lines to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from her seat on the Foreign Affairs Committee through a resolution that cites her past derogatory remarks about Jewish people and anti-Israel posture.