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Mike Johnson Said There Was No ‘Plan B’ on Government Funding. Turns Out, ‘Plan B’ Is What Everyone Expected.

The speaker’s GOP detractors were correct. They made sure of it.

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Speaker Mike Johnson spent most of Thursday waiting to make his next “play call” after the House rejected the GOP’s government funding plan. It turns out the next play is to throw in the towel.

Although Johnson held off on an official announcement, the news that Johnson is proceeding with a continuing resolution until December — one that Democrats will support — began leaking out Thursday afternoon.

“We will very likely be forced to eat a short-term CR into December, which I will oppose, and that bill will pass,” Rep. Clay Higgins told NOTUS, spelling out what’s been apparent — but unsaid by GOP leaders — for weeks. “And then whatever happens in the election cycle, in December, this body will come back and pass an omnibus spending bill.”