Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will keep the House in recess for a third straight week to put maximum pressure on the Senate to pass its plan to end the government shutdown .

House GOP leadership plans on holding a member call at 11 a.m. Saturday to talk about the next steps, the Washington Examiner learned.

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“The House will come back into session and do its work as soon as Chuck Schumer allows us to reopen the government,” Johnson said at a press conference Friday before it was announced they would remain in recess. “That’s plain and simple

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