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Meet ‘Mr. Shutdown,’ Heritage Action’s Michael Needham

By Mark Tapscott
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Meet ‘Mr. Shutdown,’ Heritage Action’s Michael Needham

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has been the public face of the movement to spare America the miseries of Obamacare by defunding it, but the guy behind the strategy is anything but a household name.

Meet Michael Needham, aka “Mr. Shutdown.”

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