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US Shutdown Continues

Obama cuts Asia trip

REUTERS, Washington
President Barack Obama on Wednesday scrapped part of long-planned trip to Asia and left the remainder of the trip in doubt as a US government shutdown entered a second day
with no end in sight to the funding battle in Congress that triggered it.
Obama scuttled two stops on a planned four-country tour and left visits to two other countries up in the air, according to White House statements.
The president told his counterparts in Malaysia and the Philippines he would not be able to meet them as planned and a White House official said the president is weighing
whether to attend diplomatic summits in Indonesia and Brunei.
"We will continue to evaluate those trips based on how events develop throughout FROM PAGE 16 the course of the week," National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.
Obama was originally due to leave the United States on Saturday and return a week later.
Not only must the president deal with the budget impasse and its effects, but he faces an even bigger crunch in Congress, which will put the United States at risk of defaulting on its debts if it does not raise the US public debt ceiling. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has said the United States will exhaust its borrowing authority no later than October 17.
The fight between Obama's Democrats and the Republicans over the government's borrowing power is rapidly merging with the standoff over every day funding, which has forced the first government shutdown in 17 years and forced hundreds of thousands of federal employees to take unpaid leave.
The White House announcements about the Asia trip followed a fruitless day on Capitol Hill, with
congressional Democrats and Republicans coming no closer to resolving their differences.
Obama accused Republicans of taking the government hostage to sabotage his signature healthcare law, the most ambitious US social program in five decades, passed three years ago.
Republicans in the House of Representatives view the Affordable Care Act as a dangerous extension of government power, and have coupled their efforts to undermine it with continued efforts to block government funding. The Democratic-controlled Senate has repeatedly rejected those efforts.
The standoff has raised new concerns about Congress’s ability to perform its most basic duties and threatens to hamper a still fragile economic recovery.
"This is a mess. A royal screw-up," said Democratic Representative Louise SlaughterofNewYork.
As police cordoned off landmarks such as the Lincoln Memorial, and government agencies stopped functions ranging from cancer treatments to trade negotiations,
Republicans in the House sought to restore funding to national parks, veterans' care and the District of Columbia, the capital.
An effort to pass the three bills fell short on Tuesday evening, but Republicans plan to try again on Wednesday. They are likely to be defeated by the Democratic-controlled Senate.
"That's important - a park? How about the kids who need daycare?" said Democratic Representative Sander Levin of Michigan. “You have to let all the hostages go. Every single one of them."
The setback to the Asia trip, designed to reinforce US commitment to the region, is the first obvious international consequence of the troubles in Washington.
"They’ve shut down the government over an ideological crusade to deny affordable health insurance to millions of Americans," Obama said on Tuesday.
Republicans said Obama could not complain about the impact of the shutdown while refusing to negotiate.
"The White House position is unsustainably hypo-
critical," said Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner.
Republicans said their latest proposal would help elderly veterans who on Tuesday pushed past barricades at the National World War Two Memorial to get into the site.
"They're coming here because they want to visit their memorial, the World WarTwo memorial. But no, the Obama administration has put barricades around it," said Republican Representative Mike Simpson of Idaho.
All three bills won support from a majority of the House, but fell short of the two-thirds vote needed to pass under special rules that allow quick action. Republican leaders plan to bring up the bills for a regular vote on Wednesday. Obama said he would veto the bills if they reached his desk.
The veterans in question got in to the memorial with help from several Republican lawmakers. But they did not seem interested in taking sides.
"It's just like a bunch of little kids fighting over candy," said George Atkinson, an 82-
year-old veteran of the Korean War. "The whole group ought to be replaced, top man down."
The selective spending plan appeared to temporarily unite Republicans, heading off a split between Tea Party conservatives who pushed for the government funding confrontation and moderates who appear to be losing stomach for the fight.
Representative Peter King, a New York moderate, estimated that more than 100 of the chamber's 232 Republicans would back Obama's demand to restore all government funding without conditions. That would be enough to easily pass the House with the support of the chamber's 200 Democrats.
The shutdown closed landmarks including access to the Grand Canyon and pared the government's spy agencies by 70 percent. In Washington, the National Zoo shut off a popular "panda cam" that allowed visitors to view its newborn panda cub online. In Pennsylvania, white supremacists had to cancel a planned rally at Gettysburg National Military Park.