Loom­ing shut­down sets up next big lead­er­ship test for John­son and frac­tured GOP con­fer­ence

House Speak­er Mike John­son (R‑LA) must once again wran­gle his con­fer­ence to sup­port some sort of spend­ing leg­is­la­tion or risk a lapse in fed­er­al fund­ing just one month before the Novem­ber elec­tion with less than two weeks until a sched­uled gov­ern­ment shut­down. 
John­son will move for­ward with putting his orig­i­nal con­tin­u­ing res­o­lu­tion up for a vote on Wednes­day despite pulling the bill from con­sid­er­a­tion last week due to a lack of sup­port among his own par­ty. How­ev­er, the speak­er said he would move for­ward …