Mike Johnson Has a Plan to Avoid a Shutdown

“House Republican speaker nominee Mike Johnson is working to convince ultraconservatives to avert a Nov. 18 government shutdown, a signal that even hardliners in the GOP may be willing to compromise on a short-term spending deal,” Bloomberg reports.

“Johnson spelled out a plan in a letter to his colleagues on Monday that lacked key details on government funding levels and US support for Ukraine and Israel. But it didn’t draw immediate blowback from Republicans who have tried to leverage the threat of a federal funding lapse to make deep cuts and enact conservative policy priorities.”