claim: "it cost us more to shut the government down than to keep it open."
author: rand paul
evidence_1: note: this story has been updated. it originally ran on sept. 24, 2015, before  congress approved a temporary funding measure to avert a government  shutdown. the legislation expires this week, leaving congress faced with the  same spending issues that went unresolved earlier this fall. budget hawks in  congress may ...
evidence_2: apr 27, 2017 ... the house and senate have to pass the resolution before the spending deadline  to keep the government open. house speaker paul ... the government has  officially shut down 18 times since the modern process that congress uses to  pass budget and spending bills took effect in 1976. the first six of those ...
evidence_3: the u.s. army used the island for more than 80 years--from 1850 until 1933,  when the island was transferred to the u.s. department of justice for use by the  federal bureau of prisons. the federal government had decided to open a  maximum-security, minimum-privilege penitentiary to deal with the most  incorrigible ...
evidence_4: apr 18, 2017 ... a dysfunctional u.s. congress faces a deadline to avoid another costly  government shutdown.
evidence_5: from october 1 through 16, 2013, the united states federal government entered  a shutdown and curtailed most routine operations because neither legislation  appropriating funds for fiscal year 2014 nor a continuing resolution for the interim  authorization of appropriations for fiscal year 2014 was enacted in time. regular  ...