Shutdown Averted…For Now

Elections are the best tool to ensure this doesn’t happen again and again every year

“I couldn’t have ever imagined these shutdowns would last this long of a time and would be used as a political gambit”, said in 2019 former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, who is credited with having established the “governmental shutdown”. Appointed by President Jimmy Carter, Civiletti was asked for a legal opinion as the Congress had been consist…