House Speaker Mike Johnson at a press conference on Capitol Hill on November 2, 2023.
House Speaker Mike Johnson at a press conference on Capitol Hill on November 2, 2023.
  • Speaker Mike Johnson just passed a "clean" government funding bill with mostly Democratic votes.
  • That's essentially the same thing that triggered the effort to oust Kevin McCarthy in October.
  • But no one's eager to go through another speaker fight, and the hard right's cutting him some slack.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives just passed a bill to temporarily fund the government, it got way more votes from Democrats than Republicans, and the hard right is pissed off about it.

Does that sound familiar?