Mike Johnson Sees ‘Longest Shutdown in History’ Ahead

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said the government shutdown is on its way to being one of the longest in history unless Democrats accept the House-passed, GOP-crafted stopgap bill to reopen the government, The Hill reports.

Said Johnson: “We’re barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history, unless Democrats dropped their partisan demands and passed a clean, no-strings-attached budget to reopen the government and pay our federal workers.”