This action is part of my blog post on the petulant president. He actually wants the American people to feel as much pain during this politician-made crisis. He shows himself to be a very small man. Shutting down the White House tours was a petty, spiteful action. He wants to punish the average tourist/student group/family who has saved and budgeted for months to make the trip and tour the White House.
It's sick. This was the only idea he had to cut costs?