Capitol agenda: What Johnson’s early exit could leave behind

Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday curtailed the chamber’s preelection calendar, putting a number of priorities at risk of being delayed until the lame-duck period or axed altogether.

Johnson cited premidterm political pressures and a lack of action in the Senate — which is due to return Sept. 14 — as reasons for canceling the House’s final two weeks of session before November.

But that means House lawmakers have just one more work week in Washington before the elections, and a short list of priorities some members wanted to see action on are now in serious doubt:

— DATA CENTERS: One key item that could slip off the premidterm agenda is a measure…

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