Rep. Thomas Massie (R, Ky.) has cast the first Republican vote against Mike Johnson. Massie said ahead of the session Friday that he planned to vote against the Louisiana Republican, instead voting for Rep.

"I'd say there's a 70% chance Mike Johnson is going to be speaker ... because that's just the way the swamp works," Congressman Thomas Massie said.

The U.S. House of Representatives will decide Jan. 3 whether to re-elect Speaker Mike Johnson to the top GOP job after he faced a contentious vote to avert a government shutdown at the last minute just before the holidays, leaving some Republicans skeptical of his prospects.

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) will get to keep the big gavel after his fellow Republicans voted to re-elect him House Speaker on Friday afternoon.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) succeeded in keeping his gavel for the 119th Congress, winning in the House’s Speakership vote in one round Friday. Johnson, who had a one-vote margin of

Thomas Massie, the congressman representing Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District, was ultimately the only GOP representative to vote against Rep. Mike Johnson for speaker of the US House of Representatives.

This time was supposed to be different. But while House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday avoided the dayslong ordeal that his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, endured to become speaker, his relatively swift victory was hardly a unifying moment.

WASHINGTON – House Republicans gave Mike Johnson the speaker's gavel for another two years on Friday – along with a warning. Nine GOP lawmakers at first either abstained from voting for Johnson or voted for another person for speaker.

Mike Johnson’s failed speakership bid shows how hard it may be for the narrow Republican majority to enact Trump’s conservative agenda.