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Showdown averted, per the House speaker: “We’ll have the votes, yeah,” Mike Johnson told NOTUS’ Em Luetkemeyer and Riley Rogerson last night.
The holdouts stopped holding out. Namely, Reps. Anna Paulina Luna and Tim Burchett. “As of right now, with the current agreement that we have, as well as discussions, we will both be a ‘yes’ on the rule,” Luna said.
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What did the trick? In part, a meeting with Donald Trump, who appears eager to move on from the news cycle questioning his administration’s aggressive immigration tactics. (Kristi Noem also announced that federal agents in Minneapolis would receive body cameras, though the Trump administration hasn’t shown any sign of changing its tactics.)