Moody's estimated that it ``cut real GDP by $20 billion,
shaving half a percentage point off growth in the fourth quarter [of
2013].''
In 2015, Mr. Mulvaney was part of another Republican shutdown effort. This time it was to shutter the Department of Homeland Security to
protest President Obama's immigration policy. Thankfully, House
Republicans relented before the shutdown took effect. Otherwise, the
closure would have caused about 30,000 furloughs and about 200,000
other people, including Coast Guard personnel, TSA, ICE, Border Patrol
and Customs officers, to report to work, most of them without the
promise of a paycheck. When Americans have suffered natural disasters, Mr. Mulvaney has
shown himself among those who are the least sympathetic about providing
Federal assistance, insisting, for example, that emergency aid for the
victims of Hurricane Sandy should be offset.
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