Democrats See Big Upside to Mike Johnson’s Funding Push

“House Democrats were already attacking swing-district Republicans over conservative funding bills before Kevin McCarthy lost the speakership. Speaker Mike Johnson is giving them even more fodder,” Politico reports.

“The Louisiana Republican is staking his legislative reputation on churning through the full stack of a dozen annual funding bills, many of them including conservative riders like a national ban on mail-order abortion pills. By the end of Johnson’s first full week as speaker, House Republicans had passed three of the 12 spending measures, and he’s hoping to clear another handful before the Nov. 17 government shutdown deadline.”