Speaker Mike Johnson just passed a "clean" government funding bill with mostly Democratic votes.
But no one's eager to go through another speaker fight, and the hard right's cutting him some slack.
If so, that's because it's essentially the same thing that triggered the end of Kevin McCarthy's speakership in October.
But that hasn't been enough to mollify critics on the hard right, including one who described it as "[perpetuating] the very system my constituents sent me here to oppose."
And hard right Republicans are at least somewhat optimistic that they can keep that process going, despite the passage of a temporary government funding bill that they philosophically disagree with.
Persons:
Mike Johnson, That's, Kevin McCarthy, —, it's, Kevin McCarthy's speakership, McCarthy, Matt Gaetz, Johnson, Chip Roy, Tim Burchett, Andy Ogles, who's, Tom Tiffany of, it'll, Patty Murray
Organizations:
Democratic, Service, Republicans, Republican, Caucus
Locations:
Florida, Tennessee, Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin