The alliance between Speaker Mike Johnson and President-elect Donald Trump may prove to be the most important relationship in ...

Fresh off his reelection as speaker, Mike Johnson hyped up Republicans’ ambitious agenda for the new year and pledged to take aim at the “deep state” through their legislative endeavors.

Johnson appeared to be on a path to defeat when five Republicans sat silently as their clerk called their names for a vote. Three others — Republican Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Ralph Norman of ...