{"id":18593,"date":"2026-02-03T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/how-mike-johnson-is-scrambling-to-keep-the-shutdown-short-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:22:28","slug":"how-mike-johnson-is-scrambling-to-keep-the-shutdown-short-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/how-mike-johnson-is-scrambling-to-keep-the-shutdown-short-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mike Johnson is scrambling to keep the shutdown short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is pushing forward with a plan to get a massive funding package through the House without changes Tuesday, ending a brief partial government shutdown. Johnson met with Rules Committee Republicans Monday, shortly before the panel convened to take up a floor plan for the funding bill&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/02\/congress\/mike-johnson-save-act-spending-00760523\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is pushing forward with a plan to get a massive funding package through the House without changes Tuesday, ending a brief partial government shutdown. Johnson met with Rules Committee Republicans Monday, shortly before the panel convened to take up a floor plan for the funding bill&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593","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=18593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}