Republicans pushing for government shutdown ‘stuck on stupid’, says party moderate

Mike Lawler, New York Republican, says colleagues refuse to do what we were elected to do' as shutdown looms

Republicans pushing for a federal government shutdown are stuck on stupid", a party moderate said shortly before one rightwinger reported that the House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, would not hold a vote on a bipartisan Senate plan advanced as a way to keep the government open.

The American people elected a House Republican majority to serve as a check and balance and be able to govern," Mike Lawler, a Republican from New York, a heavily Democratic state, told CNN.