WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has summoned the House back into session to pass a stopgap funding bill as soon as Wednesday that would end the longest government shutdown in US history, even as Democrats led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and some GOPers are agitating against some of the bill’s provisions.

Votes could kick off by 4 p.m. Wednesday after Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) is sworn in, bringing the number of Democrats in the House up to 214, but their leader indicated that he expected no member of his party to defect.

“House Democrats will strongly oppose any legislation that does not decisively address the Republican healthcare crisis,” Jeffries told CNN on Tuesday.

“We want to reopen the government. We’ll continue to stand by our ha

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