House passes short-term funding plan to avert government shutdown
The House voted to keep government agencies funded until at least Jan. 19 in a bipartisan vote.
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The House voted to keep government agencies funded until at least Jan. 19 in a bipartisan vote.
Congress faces a Friday deadline to fund the government and avert a shutdown.
With a looming government shutdown, the House will consider a stopgap measure today.
In a 2005 op-ed piece in the Shreveport Times, Johnson also compared the judicial philosophy that legalized the right to an abortion to Hitler's.
Rep. Mike Johnson is the fourth speaker nominee since McCarthy's removal and the second in a single day. He said that his intention is to go the House floor Wednesday for a noon speaker vote.
