House Speaker Mike Johnson has maintained that any relief aid for California and Los Angeles is likely to require policy review first.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson of Shreveport was backed by President-elect Trump to retain the top job in Congress.
In an interview aired Wednesday night, Trump said he may withhold aid to California until the state adjusts how it manages its scarce water resources. He falsely claimed that California’s fish conservation efforts in the northern part of the state are responsible for fire hydrants running dry in urban areas.
Mike Johnson is a fairly known name in American politics. He currently serves as the 56th speaker of the United States House of Representatives. A lawyer by profession, he assumed the position in 2023 after former speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the office.
Outgoing President Joe Biden did not know what he was signing, House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a new interview, pointing to a conversation he had with the outgoing commander-in-chief in January 2024.
Johnson also blasted California’s Democratic leadership, saying, "It appears to us that state and local leaders were derelict in their duty."
Mike Johnson finds himself in a politically tricky predicament. The House speaker, who has been tasked with tearing apart Democrats’ 2022 climate law, attempted to first reap its rewards.
Such are the conditions of Mr. Mike Johnson and his Republican caucus. For Israel, anything. For our brothers and sisters in California, a miserable lesson in voting blue. Here’s hoping that, when the next natural disaster befalls a red state in our America, it’s not the Democrats wielding the national purse.
The House speaker opposed the Inflation Reduction Act and has vowed to roll it back. But he's quietly urging the EPA to give his district a grant funded by the law.
Any disaster aid to help Los Angeles recover from devastating wildfires could be predicated on whether local and state policy in California contributed to the natural disaster, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said earlier this week.
With the second inauguration of Republican President Donald Trump, Louisiana enters an unprecedented period that has the potential for maximal policy change from an eccentric past that still inflicts woes on the state to this day.
Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins says he'll 'rip' the curtain from the rod with his authority to investigate on House Oversight.