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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is now back to the drawing board in his attempts to keep the federal government open after a GOP wish-list policy crashed and burned during pre-vote negotiations. According to CNBC, the Louisiana Republican has calculated that his version of a must-pass government funding bill no longer has the votes after a decisive number of his fellow Republicans signaled their intent to vote it down. The outlet reported that there are as many as 15 GOP members of the House of Representatives who would not vote for the legislation in its current form. In order to pas…

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