In positioning himself as a junior partner to the president and doing his bidding on matters large and small, the Louisiana Republican is diminishing a job that involves leading a coequal branch of government.

At the start of a House GOP conference, Johnson stood by Trump on mass deportations, the firings of inspectors general and his comments that wildfire aid should have conditions.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is backing a variety of play calls President Trump made in his first week in office, including a decision to fire government watchdogs across most Cabinet-level departments.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has maintained that any relief aid for California and Los Angeles is likely to require policy review first.

WASHINGTON D.C. (KLFY) – Speaker Mike Johnson and Governor Jeff Landry were at the National March for Life in Washington D.C.. Prior to the March for Life, Governor Landry met with 400 high school students from the Baton Rouge Youth Pilgrimage to the March for Life.

For a writer on politics and policy, the Johnson-Scalise-Cassidy permutations present a delectable feast. The most immediately pressing circumstance, though, is local. In the past four or five years,

Both government agencies and nonprofits in Louisiana scrambled to understand what Trump's order pausing federal grants and loans.

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.

When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in late August 2005, it took Congress just a few days to approve $10.5 billion in federal disaster aid at President George W. Bush’s request. Lawmakers cleared another $51.

WASHINGTON – Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy is one of the few in Congress not hemming and hawing about President Donald Trump freeing the protestors who stormed the Capitol on Jan.

House Republicans are spending three days in Doral, Florida, meeting with President Donald Trump on a legislative agenda

President Donald Trump boasted about his first week in office as he rallied House Republicans to advance tax cuts, border security and other conservative priorities.