House Speaker Mike Johnson defended the House-passed “big, beautiful bill” which includes Medicaid cuts, arguing that only those who are defrauding the program will lose coverage, and

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has been praised by Republicans and commentators for his role in passing Donald Trump's budget bill. The more than 1,000-page bill, which Trump dubbed his "big, beautiful bill,

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had to bring in the big gun last week — President Trump — to pressure House Republican holdouts into passing one of the largest tax cuts in US history. “There were many points in the final couple of weeks where the entire thing appeared that it would fall apart,