Today’s notice: The House has a very full calendar ahead, and a new member to swear in. Trump keeps quiet (relatively). Chuck Schumer is back in the doghouse. And: What did anyone learn from all this?
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All over but the shouting: There will surely be a lot of shouting. But it seems like the House will pass the Senate shutdown deal with relatively little drama (for Republicans) later this week. The Senate passed the bill and sent it to the House last night, following a tight 60-40 vote.
“A complete and total win for the House Freedom Caucus” is how that group described the deal in talking points distributed to members and obtained by NOTUS’ Reese Gorman. This is great news for Mike Johnson, who wasn’t planning on relying on Democratic votes to pass the deal. The plan is for the House to return tomorrow and wrap this thing up.
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On a call with his conference Monday, Johnson reminded members he didn’t cut a deal with Democrats like John Thune did to guarantee a Senate vote on an Affordable Care Act subsidy extensions bill. So no reason for that to get in the way of unified Republican support, either.