House Speaker Mike Johnson often says he sees himself as the quarterback and President-elect Donald Trump as the coach calling plays on their legislative priorities

Unlike past incoming presidents, Trump knows how to get his agenda done because he already had one term sitting in the Oval Office.

During the two months since Trump won the election, states and Congress have certified the results, a new Congress has convened, and the president-elect has been sentenced in his hush-money case

But on the Salem Media Group news program THIS WEEK ON CAPITOL HILL with Tony Perkins, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) dispels the notion of a so-called Ice Age and instead promises a “new Golden Age in America” under the unified government headed by Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is considering combining his top priorities for his second term into a “big, beautiful bill” to be put to Congress in his first days in office.

President-elect Trump’s imperialist tendencies ahead of his second term are begging a question that dominated his first term: Should he be taken seriously, or literally? Trump during a Tuesday

Congress has certified Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election. The proc took place four years to the day after a mob of Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol to disrupt the 2021 Electoral College count. Trump has repeatedly said he would pardon convicted rioters.

Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment. There are multiple passages he has said or suggested he will ignore or reinterpret.

Of course, there is much more than just those three steps to saving a democracy. In the Democracy Playbook, we lay out four more main pillars: reinforce civic and media space, protect pluralistic governance, counter disinformation, and make democracy deliver.

But it’s not the only path open to Trump. And perhaps not the wisest option politically, or for the wellbeing of a divided nation. The president-elect has a chance given to only one previous president, Grover Cleveland, to start from scratch in a second term.

Pam Bondi, Donald Trump’s nominee for the next U.S. attorney general, refused to give a basic yes or no answer, during her confirmation hearing Wednesday, regarding her views on birthright citizenship, which is etched into the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.