.It’s been hard to turn on the TV news or open a news website this week without catching California Rep. Kevin Kiley.

As The New York Times headline put it, Kiley’s been “the lonely House Republican still coming to work.”

“The House has a lot of things to do, including, by the way, passing our actual appropriation bills,” the second-term lawmaker told NBC News’ “Meet the Press NOW” on Tuesday. “The very fact that we have a government shutdown is all the more reason to be here so that we can do everything we possibly can to end this terrible thing for the American people.”

Kiley’s presence at the Capitol has gotten so much attention in part because public GOP criticism of Speaker Mike Johnson over his handling of the shutdown has been extraordinarily rare. The Louisiana Republican ha

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