The ongoing government shutdown should be used to eliminate unnecessary agencies and programs in the nation’s “bloated government,” Rep. Marlin Stutzman told Newsmax on Friday.
“We have bloated bureaucracies,” the Indiana Republican said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “We have paper pushers. We have people that really don’t do what the American people are expecting, that the government serves them.”
Democrats and Republicans remain deadlocked over how to reopen the government, with the Senate on Thursday rejecting competing bills for the seventh time. With senators leaving town until Tuesday, the standoff will continue into next week.
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