House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) skipped a White House meeting Thursday — and sources say it wasn't an accident. Two aides familiar with the cancellation told reporter Pablo Manríquez that Johnson flatly refused to attend,

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) skipped a White House meeting Thursday — and sources say it wasn't an accident. Two aides familiar with the cancellation told reporter Pablo Manríquez that Johnson flatly refused to attend, marking what may be the first time the Speaker has said no to Donald Trump.

House members in both parties are embracing the discharge petition like never before to sidestep Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and pass bills he refuses to put on the floor. Why it matters: Republican leaders have long discouraged their members from signing onto Democratic-led petitions,

Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI) told reporters on Thursday that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) pulled a scheduled war powers resolution vote, saying that it was clear that Democrats had enough votes to compel President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran war.

In a tour de force of the opposite of leadership, Speaker Moses is doing all he can to shield the president’s wildly unpopular war in Iran from Congressional oversight.

A year-old clip of the Speaker resurfaced this week — the same day ethics filings revealed President Trump's Q1 stock trades. A bipartisan discharge petition to ban congressional stock trading sits stalled.

Johnson cited inflation as a reason Congress members traded on the stock market, but voiced support for a hypothetical policy to ban it.

Katy Tur fretted that Speaker Mike Johnson was subordinating the Declaration of Independence to God by restating the former's most famous line.

MS NOW host Katy Tur questioned whether House Speaker Mike Johnson put God over the Declaration of Independence during her show on Monday, sparking backlash.

From the House floor on May 21, 2026, Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO) called on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to "show a modicum of courage" and stop Donald Trump' $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund from being used to compensate the Captiol rioters on January 6,