
Hello and welcome to a post-October Federal Holiday edition of Regulator.
Last week, I caught wind that House Speaker Mike Johnson, along with several top House Republican leaders, had held an exclusive press briefing about the government shutdown that was restricted to « new media. » The contents of the meeting were published as a « scoop » by the Washington Reporter – a Congress-focused publication founded by several GOP operatives that’d been established as a Punchbowl for conservatives – which described the call as « set[ting] the record straight » and « the latest way that House Republicans are taking their messaging directly to the American …