Some House Republican women are in open revolt against Speaker Mike Johnson

Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down a revolt from House Republican women. Meanwhile, several are exiting the House, weighing retirement or quitting Congress early.

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down a revolt from House Republican women.

Several female lawmakers have been increasingly defying Johnson, R-La., on legislative matters and lobbing public broadsides at him — including a member of Johnson’s own leadership team.

This week alone, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., launched a discharge petition to go around Johnson and force a floor vote on a congressional stock trading ban, posting on X that she’s “pissed” that leadership isn’t moving fast enough on the issue while clarifying, “I like Mike.” Johnson prefers to go through regular order, and there has been an initial hearing on the issue.

Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the chair of House Republican Leadership, not only signed on to Luna’s petition but also publicly unloaded on Johnson over an unrelated issue in the national defense bill, suggesting in a series of social media posts that Johnson lied about the matter. The spat has seemingly since been resolved, but the bad blood between the two has long been simmering.

Asked about Stefanik’s broadsides in the Capitol on Wednesday, Johnson shrugged off the complaints and said he’s “not worried” about his standing “at all.”