It’s shutdown day. Johnson has a few options

The Daily Punch

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Politics, News, Government

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Speaker Mike Johnson and President-elect Donald Trump are not having a great week. We are hours from a government shutdown and the speaker's options are limited. Plus: Who's up and who's down this week in the Punch Power Matrix. Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.4	Ball News. It is Friday, December 20th, 2024. Let's get it to the mix. Here are your Washington
0:51.2	headlines. The day number one, it's shutdown day. Mike Johnson has a few
0:57.1	options. Number two, the House Republicans who voted against the CR and number three, the punch
1:02.9	power matrix, a special AM addition to the punch power matrix. Let's get into a good morning,
1:08.9	everybody, not a good morning morning if you are Mike Johnson,
1:12.7	or Donald Trump, or anybody involved in the just rollicking debacle that has been the House
1:20.6	Republican leadership over the last couple days, just a complete and utter debacle.
1:26.5	It's hard to encapsulate how much of a debacle this has been.
1:35.3	Yesterday, Thursday, Mike Johnson put a bill on the floor that would have raised the debt limit for two years and funded government for three months.
1:45.9	No spending cuts, of course, on that debt limit.
1:49.9	Increase in addition to extending the Farm Bill, a couple other things.
1:54.6	That vote failed.
1:56.5	And by the way, Donald Trump backed.
1:59.8	That vote failed in spectacular, spectacular, spectacular,
2:05.2	spectacular fashion.
2:07.6	38 Republicans ignored Trump and Johnson's entreaties and voted against the bill.
2:14.9	We'll get into who next.
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