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| President tells Republicans to 'reopen the government'
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 2-October-2013
8:25:18 AM |
| President Barack Obama admonished House Republicans on Tuesday to quit fighting his three-year-old health care law and to "reopen the government," a show of defiance that reflected Democrats' confidence that conservatives have overreached after years of budget battles with the White House.
"As long as I am president, I will not give in to reckless demands by some in the Republican Party to deny affordable health insurance to millions of hard-working Americans," Obama said from the Rose Garden, flanked by new beneficiaries of the insurance program.
Then, gesturing toward his guests, he added, "I want Republicans in Congress to know - these are the Americans you'd hurt if you were allowed to dismantle this law."
The president's televised appearance captured the split-screen nature of this first of October: It was the start of a new fiscal year, with the federal government largely shuttered because of the parties' funding impasse, yet also the inaugural day for a central piece of the landmark health care law at the center of the budget standoff.
On Tuesday, uninsured Americans, about 15 percent of the population, could begin enrolling in the state-based insurance marketplaces, known as exchanges, created by the 2010 law.
It was unclear how long the shutdown might go on, and no one in either party could say if Republicans would remain firm in their insistence that Democrats agree to significant changes to the health care law. But on the initial day of the first shutdown in nearly 18 years - when a Republican-controlled Congress battled another Democratic president, Bill Clinton - there was little business getting done in the House or the Senate other than photo opportunities and partisan speeches.
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