'It's going to be a circus': Inside Mike Johnson's grueling week
Welcome to another grueling week in the House.
A growing list of deadlines is bearing down on Speaker Mike Johnson as House Republicans try to push through an extension of an expiring government spy power Tuesday, a budget plan to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown Wednesday and a farm bill many members say is key to midterm victories Thursday.
Each legislative undertaking is deeply complicated and rife with intraparty warfare from a MAHA revolt over the farm bill to a rebellion from ultraconservatives who blocked Johnsons last bid to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and could do so again.
Johnson is also facing a rebellion from his rank-and-file all the way up to some of his senior members over his plan to move ahead with the budget resolution the Senate advanced last week that would only address immigration enforcement funding. Hard-liners insist they need a comprehensive follow-up to last summers tax and spending megabill to help them stave off massive losses in the November elections.
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It always has been a circus and Johnson's one of the biggest clowns.