“It’s not a happy Friday morning for Speaker Mike Johnson. This has been an absolutely disastrous week for the speaker, President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill,” Punchbowl News reports.
“It got so bad that during a meeting with lawmakers in his office Thursday, Johnson said ‘If anyone else can get 218 votes, God bless them,’ according to three lawmakers present. Meaning they can become speaker other than him. Some in the room took it as a joke. But it seems clear Johnson is aware of his plight.”
“The federal government will shut down at midnight tonight. And the House Republican leadership — as divided, back-biting and leak-obsessed as ever — has to figure out how they’re going to keep federal employees on the job.”
