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Speaker Johnson Risks a Pyrrhic Victory on His Continuing Resolution

But the CR opens an opportunity. ‘Whatever it takes. For as long as it takes.’
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Speaker Johnson Risks a Pyrrhic Victory on His Continuing Resolution
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J.G. Collins
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New Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson notched a victory in his first big test as Speaker, managing to pass a continuing resolution, or “CR,” to avoid a government shutdown that would have occurred at midnight Thursday morning. The vote was 336-95, with two Democrats joining 93 Republicans to oppose the measure.

J.G. Collins
J.G. Collins
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J.G. Collins is managing director of the Stuyvesant Square Consultancy, a strategic advisory, market survey, and consulting firm in New York. His writings on economics, trade, politics, and public policy have appeared in Forbes, the New York Post, Crain’s New York Business, The Hill, The American Conservative, and other publications.
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