House Democrats gathered in a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning to rail against House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) short-term federal funding bill. Why it matters: Even some of the party's most centrist members are lining up against the bill,

Before Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) can dare Senate Democrats to reject a Republican-crafted bill to avert an end-of-week shutdown, he has to pull off a feat: keeping his fractious, razor-thin majority united behind the legislation.

Fox's Chad Pergram was not buying Speaker Mike Johnson's preemptive blaming of Congressional Democrats if a CR spending bill fails to pass a House vote. The post Fox News Reporter Calls Out Speaker Johnson for Blaming Shutdown on Dems: Doesn’t That Mean ‘You Don’t Have the Votes?