Happy Valentine's Day: Little love in the air as uncertainty swirls on the Hill

"We’ll have the votes," said House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., as the House approached a vote to end a three-day, partial government shutdown Tuesday morning. "That was never in doubt."

Oh really?

Well, Johnson was right. Republicans finally conjured up the votes to pass a retooled spending package to end the brief shutdown. Certainly better than the record 43-day shutdown in the fall.

But it wasn’t necessarily easy.

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