The Government shutdown was big news and created quite a stir. The issue had affected many people and was expected to get worse.
Many would soon be off the job because there would be no money to pay them. Speculation was high on just how big of a problem the impact would be.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich made comments regarding the situation. He too like many others called it a blame game.
Mick Mulvaney served as Director of the Office of Management of Budget at the White House. He too had much to say about what he deemed a Government slowdown not shutdown.
Varying Views
“We are going to manage the shutdown differently. We are not going to weaponize it,” Mulvaney said. “We’re not going to try and hurt people, especially people who happen to work for this federal Government.”
In 2013 he had different views in relation to the shutdown. He had said “in many ways, then, this is a Government ‘slowdown’ more than it is a ‘shutdown.'”
“I know that is not much consolation for folks who are personally affected,” he continued.
Newt Gingrich said “this is not what the Democrats hoped for. And I think President Trump has played this pretty well.”
Gingrich said Trump and his team think they are winning. The hope was that Democrats would eventually give in and allow the Government to continue.
“The attitude right now in the administration is that they won’t give [Schumer] anything because they think he has made a huge mistake,” Gingrich said. “When the term, the Schumer shutdown, begins to catch on, you don’t have any sense of people [in the Administration] who are inclined to back off.”
