House Speaker Mike Johnson is not committing to putting a potential Senate compromise to reopen the government on the House floor, instead urging Democrats to accept a short-term funding measure already passed by the Republican-led chamber.

“The House has done its job,” Johnson said in an interview with Scripps News. “All they have to do is pass the clean, continuing resolution, and then we can talk about all this substance. But I mean, I can't project the future of what would happen. The devil is always in the details."

Johnson insisted the continuing resolution — a seven-week stopgap bill — maintains existing spending levels that Democrats have supported in the past. He argued that Democrats are using the fight over Affordable Care Act tax credits, which are set to expire at the end of

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