Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, argued on Fox Business Monday that shutting down the U.S. government would in many ways be better than making any kind of deal with the Democrats.
“Good to see you, Congressman. So are we’ve got an impasse now. Are you willing to take that impasse to a partial government shutdown?” asked host David Asman.
“Well, the bottom line is we still have in place the spending levels and the policies from the Biden-Pelosi -Schumer regime from when they had all control of total control of government. Nothing’s changed in the 14 months since Republicans have had control. At least we’ve slowed things down. At least we fought over overspending. At least we’ve not made things worse. But the more this government does, the worse it is for the American people. We shouldn’t be joining hands with Democrats just to show we can govern, or we can get things done, no matter how harmful to the American people,” Good replied.
“Even if that leads to a partial government shutdown?” Asman replied.
“While a government shutdown is not ideal, but it’s not the worst thing,” Good replied, adding:
It would be worse to exacerbate the problem, to further increase our debt and our spending, to make our fiscal situation, which is unprecedented as it is — as you know. To continue to fund a government that&
#8217;s facilitating the border invasion, why would we give Biden and Mayorkas billions and billions of dollars to keep doing this to the American people? The only leverage we have when we have one house of one branch is to be willing to say no, to be willing to walk away.What we ought to do is do a and this is a low. This is setting the bar really low. But we ought to do the at least the, continuing resolution, through September 30th that would kick in the FRA caps that were put in place a year ago. I was against them a year ago because we had a stronger hand a year ago, but at least that would cut about $100 billion from what, the Biden, excuse me, the Johnson-Schumer deal is planning to do. At least it would. It would eliminate thousands of earmarks for tens of billions of dollars for members of both parties. And at least, it wouldn’t make things worse.
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