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Utah Gov. Herbert suggests returning power to states would help ease shutdown pain

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Decrying the federal government shutdown as a failure of leadership, Gov. Gary Herbert says the most alarming thing about it is that shutdowns seem to be becoming a sort of business-as-usual tactic in Washington.

His solution — at least in the long run — is shifting power from the federal government to states.

“I don’t presume to suggest a way out of the current gridlock, but the increasing frequency of federal shutdowns — this is the third one in the past year — should tell us that the problem is deeper than a disagreement over immigration or health care or the debt ceiling,” Herbert, a Republican, wrote in an op-ed published Thursday in Politico.