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US shutdown ends

Govt gets back to business after debt deal

Agencies
The LIS federal government gradually came back to life on Thursday after a 16-day shutdown and a bruising political battle, as the political recriminations from the crisis reverberated around Washington.
Republican rancour over the budget deal boiled over with accusations that hardliners in the party had trashed their reputation and handed a gift to their political opponents. Democrats emerged from the crisis united and emboldened.
In remarks delivered at the White House, President Barack Obama was scathing about the Republicans' doomed bit to dis- mantle his healthcare reforms and undermine his authority. Visibly angry, he told them: "You don't like a president? Go out and win an election."
He spoke less than 11 hours after signing a last-hour legislation that ended the government shutdown and a showdown over raising his government's borrowing authority.
The bill brought a temporary end to a stand-off that had threatened to pitch the US economy into a historic default on October 17.
Obama also warned that America's recent bout of political dysfunction had encouraged its enemies and dismayed its friends, and said the crisis left "no winners" in Washington.
In trying to heal the wounds of the last two weeks of internecine drama, Obama hoped to avoid a new stalemate within months, after the temporary truce between Republicans and Democrats.
"Probably nothing has done more damage to America's credibility in the world, our standing with other countries, than the spectacle that we've seen these past several weeks," he said.
"It's encouraged our enemies, it's emboldened our competitors and depressed our friends who look to us for steady leadership."
The president called on warring politicians to come together to pass a long-term budget and to give up the "brinkmanship" that squandered the trust of the American people.
Investors cheered the deal, signed to end the shutdown and debt drama, powering the S&P 500 index to an all-time high of 1,733.15, up 0.67 percent.
The compromise plan hashed out in the Senate and passed by the House only funds government until January 15 and extends US borrowing authority until February 7.
It remains unclear if Republicans, politically wounded by their tactics this time around, will seek to use the levers of shutdown and default again.
Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday there would be no government shutdown in the near future.
"A government shutdown is off the table," McConnell told National Review Online. "We're not going to do it."
Thousands of federal workers trooped back to work on Thursday.
Trains into Washington DC were again packed and the city's downtown hummed with activity after being much quieter in recent weeks.
Vice President Joe Biden was at the Environmental Protection Agency handing out muffins to returning workers.
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough meanwhile met executive branch employees at the gates of the White House, and handed out high fives.
The deal calls for negotiators from the Democratic-led Senate and Republican-led House to craft a framework for a long-term gov-ernment budget by December 13, a Herculean task given the vast differences between the two chambers' budget plans.
In a sign of their intent to conduct good faith haggling, Senate Budget chair Patty Murray and House Budget chief Paul Ryan broke bread Thursday and pledged to seek "common ground" in reducing the deficit and reining in excess spending.
"Our job over the next eight weeks is to find out what we can agree on, and we have agreed that we are going to look at everything in front of us," Murray told reporters.