According to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, the sequester is not only “a real victory for fiscal conservatism,” but an opportunity for the government to stop paying for “stupid things.”
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, the former Republican presidential candidate explained that Congress is cutting back on a “pot of money that doesn’t affect people nearly as much.”
“We’re gonna cut exactly the same amount, but we’re not gonna do it stupidly,” he told “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos. “I think what you’ll see is a rolling series of fixes— none of which back off on the total amount of the sequester — but which make more sense out of how to save the money.”
Gingrich pointed to Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to not furlough any of his employees as one example of “stupid management” in the midst of the sequester.
“You had the attorney general announcing that not a single one of his 60,000 employees would be furloughed, not a single one,” he argued. “Now, the average American looked up and said this is just stupid management.”
According to the former speaker of the house, there are a multitude of ways government can cut back on spending. “When you look at a $4 trillion government, you can find lots of really stupid things to quit paying for,” Gingrich concluded.
