House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is facing a potential floor revolt Wednesday that could derail three major GOP priorities and bring the House to a standstill.
The House Rules Committee advanced a procedural measure on Tuesday to tee up floor consideration of three separate bills: an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the farm bill, and a party-line budget resolution to fund parts of the Department of Homeland Security.
But while Johnson was able to successfully get the procedural measure passed out of committee, he now must wrangle his entire conference to support bringing the bills to the floor.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) described the current state of affairs in the House as a “s***show,” before correcting himself to call it a “crap show.”
To win over the holdouts, GOP leadership made a two-part deal with different GOP factions. For privacy hawks threatening to hold up a
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