By Tuesday afternoon, just about everyone on Capitol Hill knew Speaker Mike Johnson’s government funding plan didn’t have the votes to make it out of the House. The question now is how bad will it fail.
As NOTUS overheard Rep. Jerry Carl putting it to Rep. Buddy Carter as they arrived at the GOP’s weekly conference meeting: “It’s fixin’ to be a shit show.”
Johnson already knows of at least seven Republicans who are publicly opposed to his plan, with a handful of other GOP lawmakers who are undecided or may get in on the act of opposing the bill.