House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) raised $23.5 million in the second quarter of 2024, outperforming expectations and continuing to quiet initial concerns about his fundraising prowess when he took the gavel last October.

More than $17 million of that haul went toward Johnson’s committees with the remaining $6.5 million going toward individual members and GOP candidates. Additionally, Johnson has now transferred more than $16 million to the National Republican Congressional Committee this cycle as part of efforts to grow the party’s slim House majority next year.

“With commonsense solutions, strong candidates, and momentum growing every day, another extraordinary quarter shows Republicans are expanding our base and energized to win up and down the ballot in November,” Johnson said in a statement. “As we gather in Milwaukee next week to officially nominate President Donald Trump, our Party has never been more unified and equipped with the resources needed to grow the House majority, win the Senate, and win the White House.”

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Johnson’s second-quarter haul builds on other House GOP leaders’ fundraising for a total of $45 million raised during the second quarter, when combining the speaker’s numbers with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), Minority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), and GOP Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY).

Johnson’s fundraising still falls slightly behind his predecessor, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), but the high numbers offer hope to Republicans that the speaker is able to raise large sums for the party despite only holding the gavel for nine months.