Roughly 11 months have passed since former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster in October 2023. Now, his successor, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is navigating the same fraught political web on government funding that amounted to one of McCarthy’s “final struggles” – but it is not yet clear that he will meet the same fate.
House Republicans are huddling for a conference-wide call on Wednesday, when Johnson is expected to roll out his plan for avoiding
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