The US government shut down on Wednesday, after congressional Democrats refused to support a Republican plan to extend funding for federal departments unless they won a series of concessions centered on healthcare.
The GOP, which controls the Senate and the House of Representatives, repudiated their demands, setting off a legislative scramble that lasted into the hours before funding lapsed at midnight, when the Senate failed to advance both parties’ bills to keep funding going.
"Republicans are plunging America into a shutdown, rejecting bipartisan talks, pushing a partisan bill and risking America’s healthcare,” top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday evening, as it became clear a shutdown was inevitable.
That first paragraph seems deceptively worded. Without reading between the lines it appears to pin blame on Democrats while being vague on details about the healthcare concessions.
That’s a shame, I expected better of The Guardian.
The UK is sitting on the knife’s edge of fascism as well. Somehow Starmer is in charge and Farage has no fear. That head of lettuce was better.