Florida Republican Rep Greg Steube said on Monday that his constituents back a government shutdown if it means reining in Washington’s out-of-control spending.
“I can tell you this,” the Sarasota Republican told Newsmax host Chris Salcedo in an interview, “my district supports shutting down the government if it means that we will get a more conservative bill that would cut spending, that would secure the border, that would do all the things that Americans put us in charge of the House to do.”
Steube was responding to Salcedo’s question about whether House Republicans possessed the will to break the “corrupt cycle” of funding the federal government.
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The host noted that Congress’ usual pattern, including among Republicans, is to wait until the last minute and then force rank-and-file GOP lawmakers to support “wasteful and pro-Democrat” continuing resolutions under the threat of a supposed shutdown.
The congressman noted that many of the still unresolved spending bills passed through the House committee system back in the summer.
“Why did we wait until we got back from the August recess to start doing the appropriations process? Why didn’t we go through this in June and July?” he said.
“So we’ve put ourselves — the [Republican] leadership — has put ourselves in a position where there’s not a lot of choice,” Steube continued.
“We have the power to do this,” he added. “We have to stand firm for the American people.”
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