Republican Congressman Says The Government Didn't Shut Down During The Government Shutdown

BuzzFeed - South Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Sanford says the government shutdown wasn’t really a shutdown. South Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Sanford claimed in an interview that was posted on YouTube Sunday that the "government didn't shutdown" during the government shutdown. View Video › "The government didn't shutdown," Sanford said. "I mean everyone likes to describes it as such..the president in some cases shut down parts of government that were most visible to people. People were still getting their Social Security checks. They're still enacting.... enrolled in Medicare. I mean, I could go through a lot of different functions of government. You know, we had planes that were flying on a nightly basis...you know, using pieces of sort of our national infrastructure grid. So a lot of things were happening." An estimated 800,000 of the more than 2 million workers that are employed by the federal government were "non-essential" and furloughed when the shutdown began o