Added on April 6, 2011  John Peterson politics world news  Democrats , Republicans , Rush Hour News , US goverment shut down

US goverment to shut down?

The government faces a limited shutdown Friday at midnight in the event that Congress does not act to prevent one. Discussions on legislation to hold government agencies running is hung up over negotiations over a Republican demand for large spending reductions

The Senate’s next position Democrat stated Wednesday that negotiators about the budget are generating progress but that conservative GOP policy prescriptions continue to be obstacles because they scramble in order to avert a federal government shutdown White House meeting involving Obama, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was unable to create the hoped-for advancement, even so, with a stopgap government funding bill arranged to expire Friday at 11:59 PM.

Obama ratcheted up the actual pressure later, appearing exasperated with Republicans for possibly not warming up to a White House proposal in which matched, more or less, an earlier GOP framework proposed in Feb .. In it, Democrats suggest cuts coming up $73 billion dollars in cost savings under The presidents’s original requests – or even $33 billion underneath existing spending amounts.