Johnson Is Running Out of Time to Avoid Shutdown

“Speaker Mike Johnson, the little-known Louisiana congressman who emerged from a hardliner revolt as House Republicans’ new leader, is short on both time and experience to avert a US government shutdown,” Bloomberg reports.

“The novice to major Washington negotiations plans to release as soon as Thursday his proposal for temporary government funding that will set the tone for talks and signal the risk of a Nov. 18 federal funding lapse.”

“That gives the new speaker barely a week to make his opening gambit and choose how far to go in his demands to bolster his support among ultra-conservatives who ousted his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy.”

Politico: “Congress appears to be right back where it was a couple months ago — staring down a looming deadline to fund the government, and House Republicans having trouble passing even their own versions of spending titles.”