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Mike Johnson pours cold water on calls to hike taxes on the rich, despite Trump telling GOPers he’s open to it
House Speaker Mike Johnson is pouring cold water on the prospect of Republicans hiking taxes on the rich to help pay for ...
Johnson: US must ‘eliminate people on Medicaid’ who are not ‘eligible to be there’
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that Republicans would protect entitlement programs as they press ahead with ...
Speaker Mike Johnson presses forward with budget vote despite conservative opposition
Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune sought to present a united front as they try to sway the GOP holdouts that have ...
'Big beautiful bill' could be 'most consequential piece of legislation' in decades, Speaker Johnson says
La., on passing a blueprint backing President Donald Trump's agenda, preserving the integrity of Medicare, Medicaid and ...
Speaker Johnson scraps vote on budget blueprint for Trump’s agenda just day after prez urged lawmakers to ‘stop grandstanding’
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) huddled with hardliners for about an hour before deciding that the GOP would have to punt the ...
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Speaker Mike Johnson says he's no 'big fan' of rumored idea to raise top tax rate
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is no "big fan" of hiking the tax rate for America's wealthiest to 40%, an idea reportedly being mulled by Republicans to offset some costs of their in-progress ...
Tensions arise over Speaker Mike Johnson's efforts to bring Rep. Elise Stefanik back into the fold
After Trump pulled Stefanik’s nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Johnson faces a conundrum of how to place her on ...
House Speaker Johnson is eyeing big cuts to Medicaid. In his Louisiana district, it's a lifeline.
Among them is Chloe Stovall, 23, who works in the produce aisle at the SuperValu grocery store in Vivian, Louisiana. She said ...
Mike Johnson raises over $30 million in the first quarter of the year
Johnson was the second-highest fundraiser in the House for the last election cycle, coming in about $3 million behind House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
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Here's what Speaker Mike Johnson said about failed measure against proxy voting legislation
House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to introduce a bipartisan bill that would allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy.
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Speaker Johnson scrambles for solutions to parental proxy voting impasse
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is scrambling to break the impasse over the push to allow proxy voting for new parents, as the ...
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1Speaker Mike Johnson Says Government Must 'Eliminate People On Medicaid ...
As Republicans make moves to reduce federal spending, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is taking a strict stance on Medicaid eligibility. Over the weekend, Johnson stressed that entitlement ...