Folks?
Things COULD get REAL BAD if the House RightWingNut’s stick to their goal’s and House Speaker Johnson feels his job security IS more important than keeping the American Government working for 330 million people …..
Behind closed doors, House Republicans have shifted from optimistically cautious to expecting a government shutdown, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will have to choose in coming weeks between a fight with Democrats that threatens a shutdown, or a deal with Democrats that threatens his job.
- “People are predicting a shutdown even if it’s just for a few days,” a GOP lawmaker recently told Axios.
- They’re either “close to reaching a deal or it’s about to blow up,” one subcommittee chair recently told a fellow House Republican.
Zoom in: The government will start a partial shutdown unless a budget or spending stopgap is passed by March 1.
- It will go into a full shutdown if there’s not a budget or stopgap by March 8.
- “We think we’re going to meet the deadlines,” Johnson told reporters last week.
⏰ The key date is April 30. If there’s not a new budget by then, it will trigger a 1% across-the-board spending cut. Democrats won’t back a stopgap bill beyond this.
- Across-the-board cuts are A-OK for some House conservatives.
- They’re frustrated by the lack of policy riders on abortion, gender-affirming care and medical research in the current negotiations.
Between the lines: House Republicans have stopped laughing off the idea that Johnson could face the same treatment as former Speaker Kevin McCarthy…..