House Speaker Mike Johnson at the US Capitol Monday after briefing the media on a timeline to possibly end the government shutdown. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images

Welcome back, members of the US House of Representatives. The world has changed since you’ve been gone.

Since the House cast its last vote, on September 19 — well before the longest government shutdown in history started — Donald Trump has brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and traveled to Asia and back. The East Wing of the White House has disappeared under the president’s wrecking ball. A World Series has been won, and Taylor Swift told the globe about “ The Life of a Showgirl .”

But the House has remained stubbornly clamped shut by House Speaker Mike Johnson, in a remarkable power play

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