Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is considering a run for president, is joining in the spin that President Obama’s threat to veto the House Republicans’ spending bill would hurt the troops by withholding their pay — and turning it up to 11.
Gingrich, who knows a thing or two about government shutdowns, made his remarks Friday, at a conference in Virginia at Liberty University, which was founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell.
CNN reports:
“Let’s be clear,” Gingrich said during a speech at Liberty University Friday. “President Obama is deliberately seeking to hold the men and women in uniform hostage so the politicians can fight over the budget and use the threat of not paying the troops their weapon.”
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“You would think that the President of the United States as commander-in-chief, who has just committed to us to our third war on his term, would have some concern for the men and women and their families who are serving America,” Gingrich added. “But that’s not the case.”
