George W. Bush weighed in on the current partial government shutdown.
Former President George W. Bush has called for an end to the partial government shutdown in a social media post showing him delivering pizza to his secret service detail.
He wrote on Instagram Friday: "@LauraWBush and I are grateful to our Secret Service personnel and the thousands of Federal employees who are working hard for our country without a paycheck. And we thank our fellow citizens who are supporting them. It's time for leaders on both sides to put politics aside, come together, and end this shutdown."
The accompanying photo shows him approaching a group of people with pizza boxes in hand.
Bush's message comes amid a record-long government shutdown which is affecting the paychecks of around 800,000 federal workers.
Bush's spokesperson Freddy Ford told the Washington Post in an email about the former president: "He is buying meals for Secret Service agents on his detail as a small way, however insufficient, to show his gratitude for their hard work without pay during the shutdown."
