Speaker Mike Johnson faces uphill battle on spending, foreign aid

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : We'll get you more details.'The Senate is considering a request from the White House for a Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and border security package.
53% : That gave the House more time to pass 12 single subject spending bills to fund each agency of government.
37% : And the right of 'privacy of the home' has never placed all activity with the home outside the bounds of the criminal law.'
28% : The new speaker's first course of action was putting a resolution in support of Israel and condemning the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7.Democrats attacks on his denial of the 2020 election and gay rights recordDemocrats are already after Johnson's conservative record and involvement in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
24% : I'm going to do everything I can to make him successful,' Gaetz wrote on X.Rapidly approaching government shutdownAt the 11th hour before a September 30th deadline, McCarthy put a 'clean' CR on the floor that extended government funding at 2023 levels set under Pelosi for six weeks.
24% : Johnson has proposed putting another CR on the House floor to extend government funding until either January 15 or April 15 so the Senate 'cannot jam the House with a Christmas omnibus.'Johnson opposed the continuing resolution McCarthy put on the floor weeks ago.
19% : Anti-Israel rhetoric by DemocratsRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has also filed a resolution to censure 'Squad' Rep. Rashida Tlaib, claiming she incited an 'insurrection' when she spoke at a pro-Palestinian protest that infiltrated the Capitol campus.

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