House Speaker Johnson Is Running Out of Time to Avoid Shutdown
- Conservatives push to attach immigration changes to stopgap
- No House, Senate plans yet to avoid shutdown end of next week
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Speaker Mike Johnson, the little-known Louisiana congressman who emerged from a hardliner revolt as House Republicans’ new leader, is short on both time and experience to avert a US government shutdown.
The novice to major Washington negotiations had planned to release as soon as Thursday his proposal for temporary government funding, but intense infighting among Republicans threatens to delay any spending plan.