If you wanted a sense of how this shutdown is hardening Republicans’ views and creating unity in an otherwise fractured House GOP, Speaker Mike Johnson held a news conference with two leading members of the House Freedom Caucus this morning.
HFC Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), two of the most vocal members of the hardline right caucus, stood alongside Johnson in the Capitol on Day 20 of the shutdown.