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As this week got underway, most of the people on Capitol Hill — lawmakers, staffers, congressional reporters, et al. — were confident that members would prevent a government shutdown<\/a>. As this week nears its end, that confidence is in short supply. NBC News reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The House rejected a bill Thursday to keep the government funded temporarily after Republican leaders reneged on an earlier bipartisan deal and made modifications to appease President-elect Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk and an internal GOP revolt. … The rejected measure leaves Congress without a clear plan to avoid a looming government shutdown.<\/p>\n

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The day before the deadline did not go as expected. After Republicans abandoned the bipartisan compromise they’d already agreed to, the assumption was that GOP leaders would huddle with Democratic leaders in the hopes of crafting a new agreement.<\/p>\n

House Speaker Mike Johnson and his team instead chose an alternate course: Republicans negotiated with other Republicans, crafting a deal that not only omitted Democratic priorities<\/a> that Johnson had already agreed to<\/a>but also left Democrats out of the policymaking process altogether — despite the inconvenient fact that Democrats, at least for now, control the Senate and the White House.<\/p>\n

This approach failed spectacularly when Democrats, predictably, balked at the GOP-only measure, and when 38 House Republicans rejected<\/a> their own party’s oddly named “American Relief Act.”<\/p>\n

For the beleaguered House speaker, whose future prospects appear rather bleak<\/a>it was the second debacle in as many days. Johnson tried to suggest<\/a> the Democratic minority was to blame for his fiasco, but it was a hilariously unpersuasive argument given this week’s events:<\/p>\n