Kevin McCarthy: "I call it the 'Seinfeld' shutdown because it's a shutdown about nothing."

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy criticized Democrats for declining to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open with no strings attached.

"I call it the 'Seinfeld' shutdown because it's a shutdown about nothing," the California Republican told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett, referencing the common joke that the seminal sitcom was a "show about nothing."

McCarthy called the current impasse "the reverse [of] where Republicans were in 2013," when some GOP lawmakers pressed for a spending bill that would roll back the Affordable Care Act, while Democrats pushed for a "clean" bill to fund the government. The government ultimately shut down for 16 days before Republicans ceded to Democrats.

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