It's official: U.S. Senators passed a resolution to go without pay during future government shutdowns. The big question now is, what does this mean for the Democrats favorite move?
"I was actually very surprised to see it, it's well past due" said Aaron Evans, president of Winning Republican Strategies, "This is an important step forward in addressing a real problem that we've really seen become much too frequent, where it's just a total failure of governance."
Remember the 43-day 'Schumer Shutdown', which was only surpassed by the 76-day DHS debacle, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
"I think it will at least make them think twice, when you look at how often this has happened and how frequent this problem has become" Evans told KTRH.
But it may not be over yet. The resolution is not set to kick-in until -after- the midterms, which means the Dems can do it again before November.
"The other thing we have to step back and realize is, between insider trading or whatever else we want to get into, a lot of these Senators - their salary is not their core income" noted Evans, "I'm still a little skeptical."
The measure was pushed and introduced by Louisiana Senator John Kennedy.
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