With the first of two government-funding deadlines coming up this Friday‚ a partial government shutdown is looking more and more possible. The challenge facing House Speaker Mike Johnson is the same as the one that plagued his predecessor‚ Kevin McCarthy. Republicans control only one chamber of Congress‚ by a razor-thin margin‚ meaning that if Johnson cannot unite his caucus around a bill to fund the government‚ he will have to rely on Democrats. Doing so could put his leadership at...