{"id":15485,"date":"2025-11-10T16:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-members-should-start-returning-to-washington-right-now-johnson-says\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:16:47","slug":"house-members-should-start-returning-to-washington-right-now-johnson-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-members-should-start-returning-to-washington-right-now-johnson-says\/","title":{"rendered":"House members should start returning to Washington &#8216;right now,&#8217; Johnson says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/242539\" data-person-id=\"242539\">Mike Johnson<\/a> urged House members Monday to start returning to Capitol Hill &#8220;right now&#8221; as the chamber prepares to vote on a funding package that would end the 41-day government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate has yet to provide final sign-off on the legislation, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/09\/government-funding-deal-on-track-to-advance-sunday-night-00644110\" target=\"_blank\">success of a procedural vote Sunday<\/a> was a firm signal it is on track to pass this week. House members are on a 36-hour notice to return to the Capitol, but Johnson noted the ongoing air travel disruptions due to the shutdown as he recommended members begin making their way to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson added he would officially call members back to the Capitol &#8220;at the very moment&#8221; the Senate passes the package, which will provide full-year funding for food aid, farm and veterans programs and congressional operations, while extending funding for most other federal departments and agencies through Jan. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who made the rare decision to keep the House out of session for more than 50 days in a bid to persuade Senate Democrats to fold, declared victory in the shutdown during a Monday morning appearance. <\/p>\n<p>He left without taking questions but later told reporters in the hallway that \u201cI think we will\u201d have the votes to pass the package in the House. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson told reporters at his prior appearance that President Donald Trump was &#8220;very anxious&#8221; to reopen the government, suggesting he would ensure fellow Republicans fall in line. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As recently as last night, I was with him, and he told the press, he said, &#8216;We want to get the government open,'&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson urged House members Monday to start returning to Capitol Hill &#8220;right now&#8221; as the chamber prepares to vote on a funding package that would end the 41-day government shutdown. The Senate has yet to provide final sign-off on the legislation, but the success of a procedural vote Sunday was a firm signal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}