Posted on 01/10/2023 11:43:44 AM PST by Olog-hai
Conservative Republican Rep. Bob Good of Virginia says the threat of a government shutdown should be used as “leverage” to force “fiscal responsibility.”
But another Republican, Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida, is more cautious: “I think it should be considered as something of last resort. I don’t think it should be something that’s out there, it’s one of the first things that we’re going to do,” Giminez told Fox News’s Neil Cavuto on Monday.
“That’s why I believe that there should be, along with any — any passage of any of the appropriations bills that come out of the House, there should be a continuing resolution to keep the government working. And that continuing resolution, by the way, is — it goes back to the previous year’s budget. So that, in effect, is a cut. But a lot of people depend on a lot of government services. And so, while I say never—”
Cavuto interrupted him, asking if a debt ceiling showdown leading to a government shutdown “is routinely discussed among your colleagues” — in other words, if Republicans don’t get their way on spending, they will refuse to raise the debt limit, something that could force a government shutdown.
“What I think is that, look, all options should be on the table, but that should not be your — the thing that you resort to first, that we’re going to shut the government down. That’s the last thing we need to do,” Gimenez said. …
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Not this (bleeeep) again.
Fedzilla NEVER shuts down.
It should be a GOAL - not a “last resort.”
As mayor of Miami-Dade County during the “pandemic”, he embraced lockdowns as gleefully as any blue city mayor.
great strategy to hand the gavel to Hakim Jeffries
Yes, because Republicans should act just like Democrats. Because that's what Americans really want. Avoid any MSM-manufactured controversy, because what is most important is preserving their positions.
Even during a “shut down” money pours into the federal treasury at a rate of $11B/day give or take. Day in and day out.
Giminez, just shut up
Crappola.
You could get rid of 80 percent of ALL gub mint and NO one would notice
First.
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