Can Speaker Mike Johnson Close a Spending Deal?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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With parts of the federal government scheduled to run out of money next week, the new House Speaker makes an agreement with Democrats on a 2024 spending level. What's in this deal, which largely tracks the plan advanced last year by the ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy? And can Johnson get Republicans on the same page, given opposition from the Freedom Caucus? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:37.0	As the new deadline to fund the federal government nears, Congressional leaders agree on a top-level spending figure,
0:46.0	but can Speaker Mike Johnson deliver amid grumbling from the right flank?
0:50.0	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:53.2	We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassal, and editorial board member,
0:59.4	Kate Batchelder Odell.
1:01.5	One big question for Washington in the early days
1:04.4	and months of 2024 is the perennial
1:07.0	about funding the federal government,
1:09.0	which is currently on a short-term spending bill. This time the overarching story though is whether the new
1:16.2	speaker of the House Mike Johnson will prove more capable of wrangling his
1:20.8	fractious Republican colleagues than some of his predecessors.
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