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Johnson raises stakes on Schumer as government shutdown barrels into week 3

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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., declared the House of Representatives out of session for a third straight week in a bid to keep pressure on Senate Democrats in Washington.The speaker appears to be raising the stakes on lawmakers across the aisle, who keep refusing the GOP's plan to fund government agencies on a short-term basis in favor of making demands on healthcare that Republicans are calling unreasonable.The government shutdown is poised to roll into a third week after Senate Democrats sunk the GOP's federal funding bill seven times, most recently on Thursday.The House passed the bill on Sep...

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