As pressure builds on Speaker Mike Johnson and some anger as well, a top Freedom Caucus member puts him on notice.

I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing, one material, meaningful, significant thing the

Republican majority has done when we come back from Thanksgiving.

I am hearing lots of promises about what we will do.

Well, let me just lay down a marker

and lay down a gauntlet here.

We better damn well do it.

The uphill battle ahead when Congress returns next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington week. I'm Lisa Dejahide on Jeffrey

Goldberg is away. Representative Mike Johnson has been the speaker of the

House for a month and it seems the honeymoon may be over.

Anger and frustration are growing from some hard right members in his caucus over

government spending and with Republicans holding a razor thin majority in the

House every GOP vote matters. When Congress returns to Washington in the

coming days, Speaker Johnson's to do list is long and his moves will be closely

scrutinized by Republicans and Democrats alike.

To preview what's ahead, we're joined by Nicole Killian,

a congressional correspondent for CBS News.

And here with me in studio, Carl Hulse, the Chief

Washington Correspondent for the New York Times.

Toulou, Oleranipa, is the White House Bureau Chief for the Washington Post, and Susan Page,

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