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<img src="https://i0.wp.com/easternherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/House-Speaker-Mike-Johnson.jpg?fit=800%2C534&ssl=1" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="US faces shutdown as congress fails to pass budget" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/easternherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/House-Speaker-Mike-Johnson.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/easternherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/House-Speaker-Mike-Johnson.jpg?resize=485%2C324&ssl=1 485w, https://i0.wp.com/easternherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/House-Speaker-Mike-Johnson.jpg?resize=696%2C465&ssl=1 696w, https://i0.wp.com/easternherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/House-Speaker-Mike-Johnson.jpg?resize=150%2C100&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/easternherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/House-Speaker-Mike-Johnson.jpg?resize=768%2C513&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="387616" data-permalink="https://easternherald.com/2024/12/21/us-government-shutdown-looms/house-speaker-mike-johnson/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/easternherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/House-Speaker-Mike-Johnson.jpg?fit=800%2C534&ssl=1" data-orig-size="800,534" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="House Speaker Mike Johnson" data-image-description="
US faces shutdown as congress fails to pass budget
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House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to the media following a meeting in Washington [PHOTO:Reuters]
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US faces shutdown as congress fails to pass budget
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House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to the media following a meeting in Washington [PHOTO:Reuters]
” data-medium-file=”https://i0.wp.com/easternherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/House-Speaker-Mike-Johnson.jpg?fit=485%2C324&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i0.wp.com/easternherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/House-Speaker-Mike-Johnson.jpg?fit=696%2C465&ssl=1″>US agencies have warned of the need to prepare for an inevitable government shutdown. At the White House, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lashed out at Republicans who had agreed to a bipartisan deal and then abandoned it. “This is a mess that Speaker [Mike] Johnson created, that is his mess to fix,” she told reporters […]
Source: US government faces shutdown as congress fails to pass spending bill
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