Sean Hannity: “It's a misnomer that a government shutdown is the worst thing in the world”
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From the December 18, 2024, edition of Fox News' Hannity
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): When you go back, these old swampy ways that you're describing of how business has been done in Washington, I think what a lot of people are going to be shocked with is those days are going to change and change dramatically. You know -- and by the way, government shutdown, -- you know this, Chad -- is a misnomer because essential services will continue. The 2019 shutdown you mention, that was 30 days and guess what? The military kept up and running and protecting our country. Essential employees stayed on. People, if I recall correctly, even got back pay. Social security checks go out and Medicare stays up and open.
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I'm looking at this monstrosity, I went through all -- a lot of these provisions. You know, 1,550 pages, nobody had time to read it. It's all because they don't want to do their job and pass budgets by October 1, which is the deadline, and it's no surprise we find ourself in this position. And if I'm Donald Trump, I don't want that debt ceiling during my term. This is Joe Biden's debt ceiling race, it shouldn't be Donald Trump's.
If Hakeem Jeffries doesn't want to come to a consensus, then shut it down. You know what? I think it's a misnomer that a government shutdown is the worst thing in the world. We survived a 30 plus day shut down in 2019.