Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) orchestrated the government shutdowns of the 1990s, when Republicans went head to head against then-President Bill Clinton. In an interview on Monday, Gingrich was critical of the current Republican strategy that could result in a government shutdown on Tuesday.
“You see people sort of stumbling around,” Gingrich said on Sean Hannity’s radio show. “There is no grand strategy here. Part of the difference was when we came out of the 1994 election, we had a clear commitment in the context of America to a balanced budget, so we knew what we were driving towards. We knew what we were fighting over.”
“I think here you got a lot more confusion and a lot more uncertainty, and I think that’s a big part of what we’re living through,” he said. “Folks aren’t sure how this is going to work out.”
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