Essentially it makes the Appropriations Committee irrelevant and powerless to carry out the Founders intent to give paramount and exclusive authority to the Congress for the spending of taxpayer money. Furthermore, I think that shutting the government down has been a tool of political choice by many Republican leaders, including Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump and many others. including Vote. And it is a tool which has been employed by Democrats as well. So no one has clean hands, if you will, on this issue. (02:57–03:10)
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Asserts that government shutdowns have been used as a political tool by Republican leaders.
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