Speaker Johnson backs ‘old-school conference’ for 3 funding bills ahead of shutdown

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is pushing for an “old-school conference” to o.k. up to 3 regular authorities backing bills, with the House’s apical GOP appropriator signaling they are adjacent to a woody to bash conscionable that successful conjunction with a stopgap. Such a move, if Democrats agree, could avert a authorities shutdown astatine the end…