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House speaker Mike Johnson has indicated that yet another stop-gap funding deal could be needed to avert a partial federal outage as representatives return from recess with clock ticking
Beleaguered House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to turn things around at the Elected Leadership Committee retreat. Things apparently aren't going well.
The speaker has yet to unveil his plan for a temporary spending measure to keep the government lights on until those separate appropriations bills can be passed — prompting Democratic leaders to accuse the House GOP of using the impending deadline as a tool to “extract extreme demands.”
With this amount of dysfunction, who'd be speaker?
The Republican fight over leadership is just a sideshow to the real battle: passing crucial spending bills.