Democrats won’t throw House Speaker Mike Johnson a lifeline if his Republican colleagues turn against him again, says Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — still furious over last week’s botched spending deal.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will have to work the phones over the holidays in a bid to avoid losing the gavel in January after some hard-right lawmakers denounced his handling of recent spending negotiations.

The United States avoided a federal government shutdown when President Joe Biden, on Saturday, December 21, signed into law a three-month stopgap funding bill. Many political reporters described the bill as Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-Louisiana) "Plan C,