While House speaker is expected to ride out pressure from MAGA Republicans to vacate his role, here are some likely replacements.

It took President-elect Donald Trump and his close confidant, Elon Musk, only about 24 hours to tank a stopgap funding bill presented by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) needed to keep the government open.

After the Republican-led Congress passes a government spending bill but rejects a last-minute demand for a debt limit suspension from President-elect Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk,

President-elect Donald Trump, after rejecting House Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to avoid a government shutdown, worked the phones on Thursday, showing wavering confidence in Johnson and claiming he is aligned with billionaire Elon Musk, who first posted multiple calls to kill the GOP-brokered spending deal.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing major unrest among his colleagues after Musk and Trump tanked a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown.

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said it feels as if tech billionaire Elon Musk has become the United States’s prime minister. Gonzales joined CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where host Margaret Brennan asked him about the “confusing” dynamic between President-elect Trump,

Democrats in the Senate criticized Republicans for allowing Elon Musk to take on such an influential role, acting as a "shadow speaker" or "co-president."

Posts by Elon Musk on 'X' X-ed-out a bipartisan stopgap budget deal to fund the government and avoid a midnight Friday shut down deadline.

Senator Rand Paul has suggested that Elon Musk could replace Mike Johnson as House Speaker following a backlash over a bipartisan government funding bill. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the Kentucky Republican said: "The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress.

The speaker's push for a short-term government funding bill met louder resistance than usual from Republicans in the House.

A bipartisan spending bill to avert a government shutdown was vanquished after Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump ... saying they’d be “primaried.” House Speaker Mike Johnson—who earlier defended the spending bill—scrapped it.