House Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife ministers to Hill staffers, but nonprofit funding is a mystery
Kelly Johnson’s nonprofit paid her $50,000 in 2024 and reported no revenue, while donor names remain redacted and its filings were spotty.
- Kelly Johnson, wife of House Speaker Mike Johnson, collects a $50,000 salary from her nonprofit, Onward Christian Education Services, though the source of the organization's funding remains unclear.
- Following her husband's 2023 ascension to the speakership, Johnson pivoted her Shreveport-based nonprofit to Washington to focus on ministry for young congressional staffers working around Capitol Hill.
- Despite reporting no revenue in 2024, the group paid Johnson her full $50,000 salary, drawing reserves down to $5,797 and paying $6,475 in IRS penalties for failing to file paperwork.
- Ethics experts warn the ministry's close ties to the speaker's office create potential conflicts, with Meredith McGehee noting it "dances on that blurred line" of using public resources for private interests.
- While a spokesman for the speaker denies pressure on staff, critics like Philip Hackney question whether donors might use the organization to gain access to the speaker.
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Mystery swirls as Mike Johnson’s wife won’t name who’s bankrolling her ministry
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife is collecting a salary from a religious nonprofit that ministers to young congressional staffers, but she won’t say who's bankrolling it.Kelly Johnson, a faith-based counselor, refocused her Louisiana nonprofit, Onward Christian Education Services, on Washington after her husband took the gavel in 2023, reported the Washington Post.According to an IRS filing, the group’s new mission is to help “the hundreds of u…
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