“We’re barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday.

This is bad news for the American people, and a very bad look for Congress.

We’re at the two-week mark, and the previous somebody-blink-already line in the sand — pay for the military — has all but been erased.

As The Hill reported, a Defense Department official said Saturday the department identified about “$8 billion of unobligated research development testing and evaluation funds (RDTE) from the prior fiscal year that will be used to issue mid-month paychecks to service members” if the government does not reopen by Oct. 15.

That’s great for service members, and could have been an opening for compromise in the spirit of making things work for Americans who work for us, b

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