Speaker Johnson on ‘Dangerously Thin Ice’ as Government Shutdown Looms
‘We are in uncharted territory,’ a Republican strategist tells the Sun, as ‘it seems almost impossible to find agreement between Congress, the speaker, the incoming president, and the billionaire advisor.’
Speaker Johnson is flirting with political danger in the race to put together a budget deal.
“We are in uncharted territory, in so much as it seems almost impossible to find agreement between Congress, the speaker, the incoming president, and the billionaire advisor,” a Republican political strategist based in Washington, D.C., Matthew Bartlett, tells the Sun. “You have a lot of different equities pulling and pushing.”
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