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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Will there or won't there be a government shutdown after Donald Trump blows up the House Republican

plan to keep the government funded, and after that same House GOP fails to pass his preferred alternative.

Plus, a Georgia State Appeals Court disqualifies Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis

from continuing to oversee her criminal litigation against Donald Trump.

Welcome to Potomac Watch, a Wall Street Journal podcast.

I am your host today, Kim Strassel, here with my amazing

colleagues, Mene Uquiburua and Alicia Finley. Let's start with the mess in the house, and I want to be

clear we are taping this in the afternoon on Friday, and things are moving fast. But let's try to

sum up where they stood last time I checked in on Washington. House Speaker Mike Johnson was

nearing to closing out this Congress with a fairly ugly bill that would have continued to fund the

government through March 14th, but also, and in order to get all the votes necessary,

including Democratic votes, had been loaded up with disaster dollars, farm dollars, and ethanol mandate,

health care provisions, China restrictions. Donald Trump threw a bit of a fit over its size,

but also over the fact that it lacked a debt ceiling increase, something that nobody had really

even been talking about. So last night, Johnson put a slim down bill on the floor,

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