Subject: Re: They need a new clean CR
...because the last one only funded the government through November 21. There's no point on that one any longer.

So Johnson will have to bring the House back in and pass a new one. He'll have to swear in the new Congresswoman also. Then the games continue in the Senate.

Yes. I think that's why Trump is taking the politically risky move of appealing the SNAP ruling, as well as ratcheting up the pressure on the filibuster.

If the November 21 date passes and the current CR disappears, I don't think Johnson is able to pass a new CR out of the House without an ACA subsidy fix. With the Grijalva appointment and the GOP vacancy, they have (I believe) only two votes to give - and I can't see Greene voting for a CR without the ACA stuff in it, at this point.

At that point, the politics of shutdown get even worse for the GOP. Right now, they can credibly argue that it's only the actions of the Democrats (in choosing to filibuster, not in refraining to vote) that trigger the shutdown - not everyone accepts that, but it's a credible argument. But if we move out of the Senate and back to the House, then it's all on the GOP again, since they have the ability to take the first step on the new CR without Democratic votes again.

Johnson can't have it come back to him. He needs the Senate to act on the current CR, even though it's only got two weeks in it. But that seems unlikely, since the Democrats probably only need to get through next week before even Johnson can't pretend that the House's job is done and only the Senate needs to act.