Maeve Sheehy

The House is not in session until Monday, and Speaker Johnson told me yesterday that they would have some trouble trying to get people back before then over the weekend, although that doesn't mean that they won't try.

So we're looking at probably a shutdown until, you know, at least Monday evening.

The arrival of a U.S.

aircraft carrier strike group

does give Trump a bunch of new options to carry out his threats to attack Iran.

On the flip side, that would carry some serious risks of retaliation.

When there's a shutdown, a partial shutdown over the weekend, it usually doesn't have so much impact.

So lawmakers aren't as worried as they would be if it were during a week.