Proud Mulvaney
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Jan 22, 2018 07:26:16 #
""We were actually working to make sure the government was working for everyone, regardless of how they feel about the president," he said.
Mulvaney's critics see more nefarious motives, accusing the budget director of spreading funds to create the false impression that a government shutdown doesn't matter — as well as to mask the importance of government's role in public life. The White House, they note, is focusing some of its efforts to blunt the shutdown on things that have the biggest public exposure, such as national parks.
"I think there's sort of a pernicious aspect to that in this sense: Real right wingers like Mulvaney want to demonstrate that there aren't really real-life consequences to a government shutdown for most average Americans, and they're going to minimize that pain," said Rep. Gerald Connolly, a Democrat whose Virginia district outside D.C. would be heavily affected by furloughs of federal employees.
"This is kind of a cynical strategy to try to persuade the public that the government shutdown really isn't a shutdown, and it's all part of the Orwellian approach to messaging and governance that we have seen in the Trump era," he said."
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/mick-mulvaney-helped-to-shut-down-the-government-in-2013,530069
Mulvaney's critics see more nefarious motives, accusing the budget director of spreading funds to create the false impression that a government shutdown doesn't matter — as well as to mask the importance of government's role in public life. The White House, they note, is focusing some of its efforts to blunt the shutdown on things that have the biggest public exposure, such as national parks.
"I think there's sort of a pernicious aspect to that in this sense: Real right wingers like Mulvaney want to demonstrate that there aren't really real-life consequences to a government shutdown for most average Americans, and they're going to minimize that pain," said Rep. Gerald Connolly, a Democrat whose Virginia district outside D.C. would be heavily affected by furloughs of federal employees.
"This is kind of a cynical strategy to try to persuade the public that the government shutdown really isn't a shutdown, and it's all part of the Orwellian approach to messaging and governance that we have seen in the Trump era," he said."
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/mick-mulvaney-helped-to-shut-down-the-government-in-2013,530069
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