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Exclusive: Steele On Government Shutdown, “Anything Can Happen”

Pat McMahon Contributor
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The man in charge of the Republican Party is keeping the door to a government shutdown wide open.

During a brief campaign stop in Omaha on Wednesday, Michael Steele, the Chairman of the National Republican Committee told Nebraska Watchdog “anything can happen.”

Earlier this month the New York Times reported that a Georgia Republican, Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, indicated at a get together of social conservatives that a shutdown of the federal government could be in the offing if the GOP takes back the House in this year’s midterm elections.

Full story: Exclusive: Steele On Government Shutdown, “Anything Can Happen”