Speaker Johnson insists he’s sticking to budget deal but announces no plan to stop partial shutdown

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson insists he is sticking with the bipartisan budget deal he struck with the other congressional leaders. But on Friday he offered no clear path for overcoming hard-right opposition to prevent a partial government shutdown next week. Johnson emerged from days of testy meetings behind closed doors at the Capitol to read a terse statement. Just months on the job, the new speaker is trying to set the record straight that he will not renege on the budget deal he just made. But in his first big test as the new leader, he has yet to show how he will quell the revolt from his right flank that ousted his predecessor.