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.’

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House Speaker Johnson takes questions from reporters after presenting his final version of an interim pending bill at the Capitol December 17, 2024. AP File/J. Scott Applewhite

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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