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It’s been a rough year for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who was first attacked for his handling of the government funding debate in March and then blamed for an unsatisfying conclusion to the shutdown this fall. By contrast, Speaker Mike Johnson has largely been riding high, having ushered through the party’s biggest legislative achievement of the year while deftly managing up to a mercurial president. But in recent weeks, there’s been a remarkably swift inversion of their respective political standings.
