Mick Mulvaney: If fixing budget requires a shutdown, "so be it"
Source: CBS News
WASHINGTON -- White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said that President Donald Trump "is willing to think outside the box and do things differently" in order to change Washington, and that if there's a government shutdown, "so be it."
"I think the president is frustrated that the process in Washington is broken," Mulvaney said. "What we just did this week was fine and passable but not ideal. The appropriations, the spending process, Congress using the power of the purse has been broken here in Washington for more than 10 years. And I think a good shutdown would be one that could help fix that. It's part of that overall drain-the-swamp mentality about Washington, D.C."
"This president is willing to think outside the box and do things differently around here in order to change Washington. And if that comes to a shutdown in September, so be it," he said Sunday on "Face the Nation," when asked about Mr. Trump's threats of a government shutdown in September.
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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, responded to Mulvaney's comments on "Face the Nation," saying that a government shutdown is "un-American" and adding that he hopes "we get" the word shutdown "out of our vocabulary."
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mick-mulvaney-if-fixing-budget-requires-a-shutdown-so-be-it/
Trump is betting that if he keeps on threatening to veto any type of budget appropriation bill, eventually Democrats will have to cave because they will get the blame for the shutdown. Or, at least the 40 percent of folks who rely on right wing news sources will blame the Democrats, which is all that matters to him.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)TomCADem
(17,378 posts)...for stupid. Hey, no one thought of having the President threatening to shutdown the government! Lets try it out!
What's next? The President threatening to veto any measures to lift the debt ceiling unless a substantial number of Democrats embrace their inner Nazi?
C Moon
(12,188 posts)They get to gut all the programs just by ignoring the bills.
And hey, who better to ignore bills due than Trump?
If they ever bring back debtor prisons, Trump will be at the head of the line.
NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)jmowreader
(50,447 posts)Gingrich's 1995-96 shutdown caused his party to lose two seats in the 1996 election and four in the "referendum on Clinton's dick" 1998 election, and to Newtie's ouster as Speaker and resignation from Congress. The American people are already pissed at the Republicans; a GOP president with a GOP Congress shutting down the government WILL put every Republican seat in play next year.
jazzcat23
(176 posts)And when all the museums and monuments and national parks are closed, will Sarah Palin come out and start bitching about it too? When the VA is closed till ??? will the vets rise up to get trumpy out? Will all those who lose jobs, and businesses lose revenue, take it as a good thing to allow the shutdown of not only govt, but of the whole country? No, but WE will be out there correcting the blame and making sure it goes where it belongs...squarely on the republic*nts!
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)It does in no way mean getting rid of lobbyists or corruption.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)joshdawg
(2,637 posts)has no mental ability to think, period, much less outside the box.
bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)Trump is going to war with his own party and accepting the blame for
any shutdown
He triangulates well, but blaming the minority is a hard sell
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,289 posts)It's a fucking FEATURE not a bug dumbass. It's in the Constitution.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)They are making a big mistake promoting it
lark
(23,003 posts)just to get a bigger tax cutt for himself and get sanctions removed on Russia. It's all about his personal profit and nothing about us or the country.
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)But the republicans control congress. They can manufacture a shutdown if they choose.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)The budget appropriation was passed by bi-partisan cooperation, Dear Leader is sad, because Democrats got more.
Turbineguy
(37,206 posts)flaunt it!