The convention showcased attendees’ varied priorities, from curbing transgender rights and focusing on domestic energy to revamping immigration policies and boosting patriotic values.

After the House passed a shutdown-averting spending bill Friday, a very relieved Speaker Mike Johnson proclaimed to reporters that President-elect Donald Trump was “certainly happy about this outcome.

President-elect Donald Trump praised a revised government funding bill on Thursday ... Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social. "Speaker Mike Johnson and the House have come to a very good Deal for the American People."

President-elect Donald Trump predicted that Speaker Mike Johnson would “easily” hold onto the speaker’s gavel if he course-corrects on the government spending package that sent

EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Donald Trump told Fox News Digital that House Speaker Mike Johnson will “easily remain speaker" for the next Congress if he “acts decisively and tough" and eliminates “all of the traps being set by Democrats" in the spending package.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s fate may well depend on whether he can stay in President-elect Donald Trump’s good graces.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., right and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, are listen during a U.S. Capitol Hanukkah event with a ceremonial Menorah lighting to commemorate the upcoming eight-day festival of Hanukkah on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

President-elect Donald Trump sided with Elon Musk in his opposition to House Speaker Mike Johnson 's bill to temporarily fund the government as Congress scrambles to pass a spending bill with only two days before the deadline to avoid a shutdown.

Kentucky's Thomas Massie said he will not support Johnson's re-election bid, with others undecided amid funding bill fallout.

With the funding deadline looming and his speakership on the line, Johnson faces a quixotic to-do list: negotiate a new funding bill to avert a government shutdown, address a list of asks by Trump and his allies — and then hope there are somehow enough House Republican votes so that he doesn’t have to rely on Democrats to pass it.

President-elect Donald Trump isn’t joining calls from some in his party to replace House Speaker Mike Johnson at the start of the next Congress after the Louisiana Republican tanked a bipartisan deal to avert a government shutdown, apparently on orders from the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

After days of threats and demands, Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal.