Speaker Mike Johnson faces hard-right discontent, risking disarray ahead

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Speaker Mike Johnson faces hard-right discontent, risking disarray ahead

Tue, 11/21/2023 - 13:25
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Republican ultra-conservatives are running out of patience less than four weeks after installing one their own, Mike Johnson, as House speaker, signaling turmoil ahead and heightened risk of a government shutdown in the new year. Many of them are fuming over the new speaker’s support of an interim funding measure that postponed a Nov. 18 government shutdown until mid-January without winning…

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