“We shouldn’t underestimate the damage this unnecessary shutdown has done to families and businesses in our local communities,” said U.S. Rep. Lois Capps, who represents the Central Coast in Washington, D.C.
Esteban Yanez
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The government shutdown is over, and 16 days of back-and-forth exchanges between the Republicans and Democrats have finally come to close.
For Lois Capps (D-CA), who represents much of the Central Coast in the U.S. House of Representatives, the end of the shutdown marked the finale to “ridiculous … pain and disruption.”
“Let’s be clear, there are no winners here,” Capps said in a statement Wednesday. “Billions of dollars in economic output have been lost and the impacts have been felt up and down the Central Coast. Thousands of employees were furloughed from Los Padres, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Piedras Blancas, and Camp Roberts.”
Capps spoke on the House floor October 8, urging an end to the government shutdown. During her speech, she spoke critically of one extreme Republican faction, the Tea Party, and what role she felt they had in the government shutdown.
“Today is about ending the childish behavior of the Republican Leadership who continue to stand in the way of reopening our government,” Capps said.
During her speech, Capps emphasized the importance to both parties of reopening the government.
“I urge my colleagues on both side of the aisle to take this opportunity to stop wasting time,” she said. “We must reopen the government and get back to our work rebuilding our economy, supporting our veterans, passing a Farm bill and addressing the many other challenges we face.”
Capps issued the statement regarding the ordeal and its impact on the Central Coast after lawmakers agreed on a bill that opened the federal government late Wednesday. Capps pressed the importance of what the government shutdown had done locally.
“We shouldn’t underestimate the damage this unnecessary shutdown has done to families and businesses in our local communities,” she said.
The San Luis Obispo Republican Party was not available to comment by phone Thursday afternoon.