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Government Shutdown Over Republican Wish-List?

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September 27, 2013

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"The odds of a damaging government shutdown climbed higher on Thursday, as House Republicans looked beyond next Monday's deadline to pass a stopgap funding bill and laid out a series of demands in exchange for lifting the federal debt limit in mid-October. The move reflects House Republican leadership's conviction that the party is better positioned to extract concessions from Senate Democrats and the White House in a debt-ceiling fight than in the battle over a temporary government funding bill, which both chambers must pass by midnight on Monday, Sept. 30. Such a strategy foreshadows a lengthy fight that could rattle markets and endager the U.S. credit rating. More immediately, it douses Democrats' hopes that House Republicans would accept a Senate proposal to fund the government at current levels. "I do not see that happening," House Speaker John Boehner said of the prospect that his conference would pass the measure that is expected to clear the Senate this weekend...".* Desi Doyen (Green News Report) and comedian Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) break it down on The Young Turks.

Read more here from Alex Altman / Time.com

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