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Mike Johnson Forges Ahead With Government Funding Plan He Thinks Will Fail

With more Republicans coming out in opposition, the House speaker seems intent to illustrate that his plan doesn’t have the votes.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson talks to reporters as he arrives at the Capitol. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

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.