It's a truism that it is extremely difficult to govern with a tiny majority in the House of Representatives. When there are no vacancies, there are 435 members; if everybody shows up, it takes a bare ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has a bit more room in his narrow House majority after Republican Matt Van Epps was sworn in following a special election win in Tennessee’s Seventh Congressional District.

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the ...

Speaker Mike Johnson faces a major challenge in the new Congress: the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years.In a dramatic turn of events, Johnson managed to retain the gavel in a single vote on ...

Washington (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson’s historically narrow majority just shrunk even further, creating a major challenge for congressional Republicans as they seek to enact President Donald Trump’s ...

Washington (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson will face a major challenge in the new Congress – the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years. That is, if he can keep the gavel. Republicans will soon ...