#house-control

#house-control

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) insisted on Wednesday that he had not lost control of the House after members of his party broke ranks to force a vote on extending Obamacare subsidies. Look, we're working through very complex issues as we do here all the time, and it's good. Everybody's working towards ideas, keeping the productive conversation going. That's what happens, Johnson told reporters walking through the Capitol.

Democrats, furious about President Donald Trump's remaking of American government and society, turned out in extraordinary numbers for an off-year election to sweep virtually every competitive election on the map. The results served as a rebuke of Trump and his Republican Party and a salve for Democrats who have not had many good nights in the past year. Next will come a fierce, yearlong fight,

What I indicated is that I truly believe, as many of us do, that Donald Trump represents an existential threat to everything. That in order for us to get from where we are to where we need to go and end the national nightmare, House Democrats are going to have to be successful in taking back control of the House of Representatives,