RE: Actually it’s Biden and the Democrats who are for destroying the country or shutting the country down.
Put it this way. You are the Speaker, the time to fund the government is upon us. You want to cut spending, you only have a 4 seat majority and not every Republican is on your side, plus, Senate is controlled by the Democrats and Biden is President.
In the meantime, the government has bills to pay and debts to service and the military to support.
What do you do as Speaker?
This problem has been going on for ages since as far back as George W. Bush’s second term. The only time we got off this viscious circle was when Republicans had a huge majority in both house in the 1990’s and Dick Morris advised Clinton to sign the spending bill presented to him by Newt Gingrich ( Trent Lott was the Senate mjority leader ).
Those times no longer exist.
Johnson has the same amount of leverage as the RINOs, as the Senate and as the president. He should use it. And he would have the support of the majority of the people, who don't want to spend all of that money, that would destroy our dollar and cause inflation, on absolute junk.
In the meantime, the government has bills to pay and debts to service and the military to support.
The last estimate I heard was that during a shutdown, there would be enough money to fund about 85% of government from tax receipts. Under those circumstances, it would on Biden to not use those funds to fund the military, the debt and SSI.