Mike Johnson falling short in speaker vote, in unity test for Trump's Republicans
By Bo Erickson, Richard Cowan and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Mike Johnson appeared to be falling short in his bid to retain the top post in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday,
Mike Johnson falls short of winning reelection House Speaker on first ballot
House Speaker Mike Johnson got a boost from President-elect Trump Friday as he faces a tricky vote for reelection in the narrowly divided Congress.
Johnson Appears to Fall Short of Votes Needed to Win Speaker
Republican Mike Johnson appears to have fallen short of reelection as House speaker on the first round of voting, kicking off the GOP’s new era of unified US government control with a public display of internal party division.
Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to save his job as a new Congress convenes
The new Congress convenes Friday with one major task at hand — the election of the House speaker. But current Speaker Mike Johnson’s weak grip on the gavel threatens not only his own survival but President-elect Donald Trump’s ambitious agenda of tax cuts and mass deportations as Republicans sweep to power in Washington.
Johnson's future as speaker in question despite efforts to sway undecided Republicans
House Speaker Mike Johnson met with Republican holdouts to his bid to retain the gavel in the new Congress one day before the House convenes for the election.
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