For more than two weeks, a stalemate over electing a speaker of the House has left the U.S. government hobbled and an important seat of American democracy shut down as the country faces crises at home and abroad.
“The government has shut down, it doesn’t look good that we’re paralyzed,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) told The Epoch Times. “We still have the war in Ukraine, we still have Israel, we have border security issues and while all this is going on we can’t pass any legislation at all.”
