Conservatives Have One Last Option to Fight the Spending Bill: Complain

None of the conservatives complaining about how much time they’d have to read the bill would end up voting for it anyway.

Mike Johnson
Speaker Mike Johnson will once again have to rely on a bipartisan majority to get the spending bill through the House. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Speaker Mike Johnson is on track to avoid his fourth government shutdown this week, and conservatives are not happy about it.

With little say on what actually goes into the latest spending bill and few policy wins to point to, Johnson’s far-right flank has focused on a new sticking point: They won’t have time to read the legislation.

“They don’t like you to have time to review a bill that they know the American people aren’t going to love,” said Texas Rep. Chip Roy, a House Freedom Caucus member.