House Speaker Mike Johnson's luck seems to have finally run out amid the government shutdown fight.
He is now facing immense pressure from Democrats and even some of his Republican colleagues in the House and Senate, as he has kept the House out of session since September.
Johnson ostensibly did this after the House passed a stopgap spending bill, known as a continuing resolution, expecting Democrats and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to blink in the same way they did in March.
Every day for the past week, Johnson has gathered reporters to hold press conferences and place the blame on Schumer and Democrats for keeping the government shut down.
It hasn't worked that way this time. Rather, Democrats have rejected the "clean" continuing resolution and have demanded that any continuing resolution include an extension of enhanced tax credits for the Affordable Care Act's health care marketplace. And Johnson is hearing people's anger.
When he appeared on C-SPAN on Thursday, a Republican military spouse from Virginia called to criticize him for not putting forward legislation to ensure military pay.
In response, Johnson deflected the blame to Democrats and said Schumer would "hold that up in the Senate."
But now he's even facing criticism in his own party on the House side. Some Republicans have floated the idea of a one-year extension of the health care tax credits, which Democrats have rejected.
Meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor Greene lit into Johnson and Republican leadership for the lack of a plan to deal with health care premiums potentially doubling.
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