Johnson Says Republicans ‘Have Nothing to Negotiate’

Speaker Mike Johnson moved to shut down any attempts to negotiate a way out of the shutdown Thursday as some senators look for off-ramps, Politico reports.

“Johnson said in a news conference outside his Capitol office that Democrats should stop pressing Republicans to come to any agreement to reopen the government, saying Senate Democrats instead need to pass the seven-week stopgap bill that had already cleared the House.”

Said Johnson: “I quite literally have nothing to negotiate.”