The newly installed speaker has proposed a two-step extension of current funding levels to appease members who oppose a massive spending package passed just before Christmas. Part of the government – including public health,

Just three weeks after he took the gavel, House lawmakers are expected to vote on Speaker Johnson's plan to avert a government shutdown Tuesday afternoon.

Speaker Mike Johnson is beginning the hard fight for his gavel, a weeks-long campaign that starts Wednesday during internal House Republican leadership elections and will establish the new power centers in Congress for a Washington dominated by President-elect Donald Trump.