To the editor: The feedback by Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after passing a short lived reprieve from a authorities shutdown present the GOP’s perverse understanding of its function in authorities. Johnson’s feedback had been: “It’s a present to the American individuals.” (“GOP shutdown drama in Washington prices us dearly, whilst Congress averts a shutdown,” Opinion, Nov. 16.)
The American individuals elect members of Congress to characterize their pursuits. It requires, above all, to maintain the federal government open in order that it could possibly serve the wants of the residents.
It’s the duty of elected officers to maintain the federal government open, to not use the specter of shutdowns as a ploy to serve some sort of particular curiosity agenda.
We all know the federal government is damaged. The Speaker of the Home has recognized the reason for the damaged system.
Greg Ryan, Woodland Hills
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To the editor: Jackie Calmes’ column was insightful, persuasive and spot on.
In the present day’s Republican Get together is 180 levels totally different from the accountable, fiscally conservative occasion of the second half of the twentieth century.
In the present day the occasion is run by people who as an alternative select false theatrics and are extra centered on perceived petty grievances than working to make sure our economic system stays wholesome.
Noel Johnson, Glendale