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The House is back, but the shutdown isn’t over. Mike Johnson will have to navigate resistance from Rules Committee conservatives today in order to get a floor vote tomorrow. And even then, it won’t be easy: He’s got a one-vote majority if he can get every Republican in town and on board, and Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is already demanding that he add a voter ID bill that would be DOA in the Senate.
- Donald Trump just told Republicans to get in line. “There can be NO CHANGES at this time,” he wrote in a Truth Social post.
The president said he’s struck a trade deal with India. Trump said India will eliminate its tariffs on U.S. imports in exchange for the United States reducing its tariffs on Indian imports from 25% to 18%.