News Analysis | Suzanne Bowdey
Shaky Deal to Fund the Government Heads to Johnson’s Volatile House
Congress was close enough to passing a federal budget that leaders could smell it. But just when Speaker Mike Johnson thought he'd finally caught a break and done something historic, his work - and the House's - has been completely upended. The instant protestor Alex Pretti was shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis last month, the dream of sending all 12 appropriations bills to the president's desk for the first time in 29 years vanished - swallowed up by the Democrats' decision to slam the brakes on the process and demand an overhaul of Homeland Security. Now, with as many question marks on Capitol Hill as snow piles, Americans are back on a familiar roller coaster: the government shutdown.
