House Speaker Mike Johnson gave a blunt reality check Tuesday to President Trump’s musings about pursuing a third term in the White House, telling reporters that amending the Constitution to allow such an effort would be a “high bar” to clear.

A top congressional Republican is throwing cold water on talk that President Donald Trump could find a way to serve a third term in the White House. GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana said that changing the Constitution to allow Trump to seek a third term is a “high bar” to get over,

Nine Republicans joined with all Democrats to vote against a procedural rule to advance a package of GOP-led bills over the proxy vote fight.

The group of Republicans teamed up with Democrats to overcome a procedural hurdle backed by GOP leadership that would have blocked a proposed resolution allowing new parents in Congress to vote remotely.

A bitter intraparty dispute came to a head Tuesday as Republican members of the House Rules Committee, with the support of Speaker Mike Johnson, worked to shut down an effort to allow proxy voting for new parents in the House.