The new Speaker has three ideas to avert a government shutdown. Two make a stoppage more likely.

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The new Speaker has three ideas to avert a government shutdown. Two make a stoppage more likely.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson is currently toggling between different strategies for how to approach the government shutdown deadline looming next week.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is currently toggling between different ideas when it come to how he will approach a looming government shutdown deadline.

Johnson been circumspect so far but has acknowledged that some type of short-term solution will be needed as Congress works through its larger appropriations process. Two other approaches on the table for Johnson would keep the government open but only in return for Republican priorities that Democrats would almost surely reject.is a far-reaching GOP immigration bill that would do things like reinstate the controversial Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policies. It’s a bill that some in Johnson's caucus want to attach as a condition of keeping the government open through the holidays.

How exactly this ladder would work remains unclear but such a plan would seem to allow lawmakers to favor certain parts of a government over others — perhaps giving the Pentagon a higher rung and freeing enlistees from shutdown worries while keeping the threat of shutdown front and center for other areas of government.Either way, it’s another approach almost certain to be rejected out of hand by Democrats.

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