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But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said his chamber's bill was the only one that could prevent a shutdown.
ReplyDelete"This is it. Time is gone," Reid said after the Senate voted along strict party lines, 54 Democrats to 44 Republicans, to approve federal funding until November 15.
The Democrat also challenged Boehner to bring the stripped-down budget bill to a House vote.
"The bill we just passed would pass the House overwhelmingly if the speaker had the courage to bring it to the floor and let 435 members of the House of Representatives vote. I think they should think very carefully about their next step," he said.
As the clock ticks down, Republicans stressed that Obama was merely commenting from the sidelines, not meeting with or even phoning Boehner over the past week to thrash out a compromise.
"The House will take action that reflects the fundamental fact that Americans don't want a government shutdown and they don't want the train wreck that is Obamacare," Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said.
"Grandstanding from the president, who refuses to even be a part of the process, won't bring Congress any closer to a resolution."
As Congress and the White House bicker, the Pentagon on Friday announced worrying details of how a shutdown would effect the department.
It said the US military's nearly 1.4 million troops will stay on the job in the event of a shutdown, but not get paid until Congress appropriated funds to compensate them.
And if government agencies close, about half the Defense Department's nearly 800,000 strong civilian work force would be ordered to stay home.