House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is at the center of the Republican party's refusal to move forward on a spending bill without cuts to domestic programs.
, a former Democratic senator from North Dakota, told "Squawk Box" Monday about moving bills through the House.
"We've got a system in Washington where the very, very elite minority who only get attention during these time periods can throw a cog into the wheel and stop government," Heitkamp added.pay for federal government employees and Social Security benefit verification. But it is not the crisis that many think it is, said Mick Mulvaney, former White House chief of staff under President Donald Trump.
"People will get paid at the end of this," Mulvaney told "Squawk Box." "Everything is going to be fine. It's not a crisis. It's just not the best way to reduce spending."
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