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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) talks briefly to reporters just before a vote on an interim spending bill to prevent a government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024.

Pennsylvania Politics

Scott Perry criticized Mike Johnson’s ability to advance ‘Trump agenda’ while other Pa. Republicans praised him

U.S. Representative-elect Ryan MacKenzie said that House Speaker Mike Johnson “has ably managed the tight House majority."

Aliya Schneider

President-elect Donald Trump speaks at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg in July. Trump won Pennsylvania and helped usher in a red wave in 2024.

Pennsylvania Politics

Pennsylvania’s political pendulum swung to Republicans this year. Will it stay there?

Aliya Schneider and Fallon Roth

The flag flies at half-staff for the late President Jimmy Carter at the White House.

U.S. flag will still be at half-staff for Carter on Trump’s inauguration day

Theresa Braine, Tribune News Service

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters after passing the funding bill to avert the government shutdown at the Capitol in Washington in mid-December.

National Politics

Trump endorses Mike Johnson to stay on as House Speaker despite government funding turmoil

Michelle L. Price, Associated Press

Sen. Joe Biden and former President Jimmy Carter are seen at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in 2008.

National Politics

Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter had a decades-long friendship and political partnership

Matt Viser and Yasmeen Abutaleb, Washington Post

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