Get the Popcorn! It’s ‘Hell Week’ for Mike Johnson.

Call me a sadist, call me obsessed… but a bad week for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) should only be a good week for the rest of us.

For Johnson, these have become increasingly frequent. Since the start of the year, he’s repeatedly lost his own party’s votes; seen his razor-thin majority in the lower chamber keep on narrowing; and has had to brace for a bad midterms season for the GOP—so much so that he’s ditched some of his most dogged anti-abortion policies. Ergo, you can only imagine the smile on my face when Johnson’s colleagues said he’s in for a “hell week” this week. Get the popcorn, folks! 

From Tuesday to Thursday, Johnson will have to juggle and pass three separate measures with looming deadlines, all of which are deeply complicated and—according to Politico—none of which are “guaranteed to survive the week.”  

The first measure that’ll be voted on relates to extending Section 702, or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which currently allows the NSA and FBI to monitor, surveil, and collect communications on “foreign targets,” but can include communications with American citizens. The federal spy program is set to lapse on Thursday night, and Republicans aren’t willing to pass the proposed three-year extension because, as it stands, it doesn’t have any guardrails that would require warrants. 

Also on the line is the new farm bill, which is roughly passed once every five years. But this year, some GOP lawmakers think there’s a make-or-break provision that could win or cost them the midterms—because, as things stand, the bill would continue to protect glyphosate makers, aka cancer-causing weed killers. This bill is also facing ire from both ends of the aisle, and Democrats are concerned about its continued cuts to SNAP—which already saw its worst-ever setbacks in last year’s spending bill.

And! As if those two weren’t already giant, spinning plates for Johnson, he’s also expected to manage a Senate-passed budget resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security—and finally end the country’s longest-ever partial shutdown, which has gone on for more than 70 days. 

The FISA bill will go down Tuesday; the shutdown bill on Wednesday; and the farm bill on Thursday. To get them to pass, he will need nearly every GOP vote—and currently, he only has a 218-215 majority, with a recent history of his peers rebelling against him. 

“[It’s] going to be hell week,” Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Tex.) told reporters on Thursday. “Mike Johnson has a very difficult job. He has the second toughest job in the world…The Lord Jesus couldn’t lead this delegation.” Well, I’m guessing the Lord Jesus also wouldn’t monitor porn intake with his son, but…