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The government entered a partial shutdown on Tuesday after Congress failed
to pass a short-term spending bill to keep the government funded. Most nonessential federal programs and services were suspended, and about 800,000
federal workers faced furloughs. The Senate rejected two bills Monday that
had been passed by the House, because they both contained measures to delay
the implementation of Obamacare. In a speech Tuesday, Obama blamed the
shutdown on House Republicans: “They’ve shut down the government over an
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