From New York Times, I'm Michael Wabaro. This is the Daily.

Today.

By working with Democrats to avert a government shutdown at the end of last week

the new Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson seemed to put himself on the same path of self-immolation that

doomed his predecessor.

Or did he?

My colleague Katie Edmondson on why this time things could be different. It's Monday, Monday, November 20th.

So, Katie, the So Katie the US government did not shut down over the past few days as many had feared that it might or would especially given the dysfunction we have observed and talked to you about

endlessly from this Republican-controlled house over the past year.

That's right, Congress was staring down this deadline at midnight last

Friday. Government funding was set to expire unless Congress came to some sort of

deal to keep the government funded and there are a lot of questions as to of in large part because House Republicans really wasted three weeks trying to elect a new speaker.

And then there are a lot of questions about what that new speaker, Speaker Mike Johnson,

would do once he got the job to try to avert a shutdown.

Right, and the fact that there wasn't a shutdown was very much the work of this new house

speaker. So in brief brief what did we learn about speaker Mike Johnson

from the fact that there wasn't a shutdown? I think the first thing that we

learned is that Mike Johnson as Speaker operates differently

at least so far than Mike Johnson the Rank and File member did. So if you remember

back in September Kevin McCarthy really the last major thing he did as

speaker was to pass this deal to keep the government funded through this

November deadline and he used Democratic votes to do that,

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