House Speaker Mike Johnson faces challenges in balancing priorities as he listens to different factions' arguments on national security and government funding.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) attends a candlelit vigil outside the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 7 for the hostages abducted by Hamas last month and the Israeli victims of the Oct. 7 attacks. In his first meeting with one of the conference’s five ideological factions, Johnson listened as the House Freedom Caucus passionately argued to prioritize national security in upcoming fiscal fights and temporarily set two deadlines to fund the government into early next year.
Days later, moderate Republicans implored Johnson to avoid making swing-district lawmakers take tough votes or face an embarrassing defeat when they revolted on the House floor. He then listened as appropriators — tasked with assigning how federal funds are spent each year — pleaded that he avoid a government shutdown by ignoring the two-tier proposal and instead passing a clean extension of current funding levels, arguing that it meant to appease the hard right while trying not to alienate the centrists
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