Shutdown Fuels Economic Concerns as Pressure Mounts on Boehner
Polls show a growing number of Americans blame the Republican Party for the government shutdown. In recent days, the spotlight has focud mostly on one lawmaker: Hou Republican Majority Leader John Boehner. As Speaker of the Hou, he has blocked a vote on a temporary budget measure that would keep spending at current levels. There is support for such a measure among all Democrats and some Republicans.
U.S. President Barack Obama joined the chorus of Boehner critics on Thursday while speaking to a group of construction workers in a Washington suburb.
"There are enough Republicans and Democrats in the Hou of Reprentatives today that if the Speaker of the Hou John Boehner simply let the bill get on the floor for an up or down vote, every congressman could vote their conscience, the shutdown would end today," said Obama.
Boehner has so far refud to allow a vote on temporary funding that could return 800,000 federal employees from a current furlough. Political pundits cite two reasons this has not yet happened, despite a large majority of Americans disapproving of the shutdown. One is that Boehner would lo the support of his conrvative caucus and, perhaps, his position as Speaker. The other is that he would lo clout in bargaining with Democrats on a new U.S. budget.
九顶山Republicans, meanwhile, have criticized the Democrat-led Senate for rejecting the idea of continuing to fund some agencies and programs, such as cancer treatment for children at the National Institute for Health.
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On Thursday, a group of Republicans sought to draw attention to the hardship that a lack of funding for that program will cau. Renee Ellmers, a North Carolina Republican and a former nur, spoke passionately on behalf of children with cancer and their families.
"If you've ever en the looks on a parent's face when they are told that their child has cancer and then you take their hope away, the moment that they know that they can fight for it, they will," said Ellmers.
According to one estimate by Massachutts-bad IHS Inc., the shutdown of the federal government will cost at least $300 million a day in lost economic output. Tho loss could still increa.
瘦腿瑜伽IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned on Thursday that the U.S. budget crisis could also hurt the global economy.
席家花园 "The ongoing political uncertainty over the budget, over the debt ceiling, does not help. The government shutdown is bad enough. But failure to rai the debt ceiling would be far wor and could very riously damage not only the US economy, but also the entire global economy," said Lagarde.
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