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SHUTDOWN UPDATE: JOHNSON ATTEMPTS TO JAM THROUGH BLANK CHECK FOR TRUMP THEFTS With government funding set to expire midnight Friday, Speaker Mike Johnson is attempting to force Congress into passing a blank check for Trump. He plans to put his continuing resolution for government funding – a slush fund without even the standard checks on administration action of a normal appropriations bill – up for a House vote today, and then send his members home on recess before the Senate can change it. This way, if Senate Democrats vote against letting the Trump-Musk thefts continue, he feels he is better positioned to get the public to blame them for a shutdown instead of the folks actively tearing down our government. Let’s reach out to our House members before the vote and urge them to vote no on this power grab – Johnson will need almost every Republican on board to send this measure to the Senate, and we must remind them they are fully endorsing Trump’s corruption and cuts with a yes. And let’s also let them know we see through their little games, and we will hold them accountable for backing the blank check. We can find scripts and language here and send this Resistbot message by texting SIGN PZOBQT to 50409. Lastly, let’s check on this tally from Talking Points Memo to see what our senators are saying about where they stand. Source-Joe Katz, The Bulwark