Funding talks are resuming in Congress, with Mike Johnson at the gavel as the new Speaker of the House — which is keeping Rep. Salud Carbajal in Washington, D.C., and turning his in-person town hall meeting next Monday into a virtual event.
Johnson, a conservative Republican from Louisiana, leads a right-wing caucus committed to limiting government spending at a time when government agencies face going unfunded on November 17. Some federal employees will be working without pay, and some federal programs — such as food inspections, National Parks, and immigration court — will come to a halt, if the negotiations are unsuccessful.
Carbajal's in-person town hall meeting scheduled for Monday, November 6, in Santa Barbara will instead be held over a telephone feed at 5:30 p.m. To participate, sign up at carbajal.house.gov/live/ .