Summary: for the recent shutdown of the U.S. government? Perhaps, but it would be a stretch. You could also blame Carter, Reagan or Clinton for some presidential precedent-setting. But you sure can't blame Warren Gamaliel Harding. He didn't do it. Or you could just blame the current actors. We discuss the brief history of the government turning itself off. A look at an early play on de-funding a policy, and then some answers on other questions of history.
