Mike Johnson is a fairly known name in American politics. He currently serves as the 56th speaker of the United States House of Representatives. A lawyer by profession, he assumed the position in 2023 after former speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the office.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has maintained that any relief aid for California and Los Angeles is likely to require policy review first.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson of Shreveport was backed by President-elect Trump to retain the top job in Congress.
Outgoing President Joe Biden did not know what he was signing, House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a new interview, pointing to a conversation he had with the outgoing commander-in-chief in January 2024.
Johnson also blasted California’s Democratic leadership, saying, "It appears to us that state and local leaders were derelict in their duty."
Mike Johnson said Biden has not "been in charge for some time" and even at a 2022 meeting, the president was unaware what was in his own executive order.
The House speaker asked the agency last year to send cash from the Democrats' 2022 climate law to his district. Republicans are seeking to repeal large
Any disaster aid to help Los Angeles recover from devastating wildfires could be predicated on whether local and state policy in California contributed to the natural disaster, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said earlier this week.
In an interview aired Wednesday night, Trump said he may withhold aid to California until the state adjusts how it manages its scarce water resources. He falsely claimed that California’s fish conservation efforts in the northern part of the state are responsible for fire hydrants running dry in urban areas.
When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in late August 2005, it took Congress just a few days to approve $10.5 billion in federal disaster aid at President George W. Bush’s request. Lawmakers cleared another $51.
For all the Republican talk about "looking forward," the new president and some of his allies appear preoccupied with the retired Democratic president.
The move was intended in part to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent Cassidy Hutchinson.