The Speaker Holds, the Senate Stalls: Johnson Keeps House Shut, Ball is In Schumer’s Court

According to a Fox News report, Speaker Mike Johnson has chosen stillness as a strategy — keeping the House out of session for a sixth straight week while the government remains shut and Washington holds its breath. The shutdown is now the second-longest in American history, and if the days keep piling up, it will take the record soon enough. The last time it went this far — 2018 into 2019 — the nation sighed and waited, and somehow, we are here again. Senate Democrats have blocked the GOP’s short-term funding plan 13 times. There are faint murmurs of compromise,


