The US government shutdown extended into its 20th day on Monday with no resolution in sight, as a prominent Republican lawmaker publicly broke ranks with party leadership over the decision of Mike Johnson, the House speaker, to keep Congress shuttered for weeks.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a representative of Georgia, on Monday morning criticized Johnson’s strategy, calling on the House to return to session immediately.
“The House should be in session working,” Greene wrote on X. “We should be finishing appropriations. Our committees should be working. We should be passing bills that make President Trump’s executive orders permanent. I have no respect for the decision to refuse to work.”
Technically yeah. On Monday at 20 days, it was the third longest, on Tuesday at 21 days, it ties for the second longest, and on Wednesday at 22 days (assuming) it will become the untied second longest.
But I think we’re going for the record, currently at 35 days, set during the administation of exactly who you think.