Congress is facing a long holiday to-do list, from budgets and health care to foreign affairs,

all while Republican leaders contend with growing frustration and even open rebellion within their ranks.

Lisa Desjardin has more.

Four, three, two, one.

There you go.

The season of light is underway outside the Capitol, but there are shadows and restlessness

inside, especially for House Republicans and their speaker, Mike Johnson.

He has key defenders.

Look, Mike's job is like nailing jelly to a wall.

He's done a good job. If you look at what our goals were when this Congress started,

we've achieved almost all of the ones that were initially set out.

But on social media, anger, and worse,

like from New York Republican, Elise Stefaniq,

who this week called Johnson a liar.

Another congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Green,

backed her up, writing that the speaker breaks his promises. Green recently announced her resignation,

among her concerns that during the government shutdown, as Johnson held daily news conferences,

he kept the full house out of session for nearly two months, and he blocked popular

bills, like the one releasing the Epstein files. Republican Thomas Massey of Kentucky co-sponsored that.

He's been basically just doing whatever President Trump wants to do. So I would say President

Trump's been in control of the House. Johnson points to the numbers. When you have a razor-thin majority, which we have, this is not like the old days. You know, in the old days, they had 30-40-seat majorities. And so four leaders could go in a back room, create the agenda, and hoisted upon everybody and say, this is what you're doing. But other Republicans say that is exactly what's happened. They are increasingly going around Johnson.

Well, I've been here 13 years, and I've never tried to use a discharge petition, but it became apparent to me that that was a legitimate tool and that it could succeed.

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