Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama bercakap mengenai penutupan kerajaan di Rose Garden di White House di Washington, DC, 1 Okt 2013 (US President Barack Obama speaks about the government shutdown in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, October 1, 2013. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
MADAyuMadyan - Obama letup Republikan, menyalahkan GOP untuk penutupan semasa ucapan White House. Dalam ucapan dari White House mawar taman pada petang Selasa, Presiden Barack Obama menyalahkan penggubal undang-undang Republikan untuk mencetuskan penutupan kerajaan pertama dalam hampir 2 dekad.
Pres. Obama bercakap pada hari Selasa kira-kira 12 jam selepas kebuntuan bajet lamanya di Capitol Hill menyebabkan penutupan tengah malam memberi kesan kepada beberapa agensi dan inisiatif menyeluruh kerajaan.
“Pada tengah malam malam tadi, buat kali pertama dalam 17 tahun, Republikan di Kongres memilih untuk menutup kerajaan persekutuan,” Obama memulakan ucapannya.
“Biar saya menjadi lebih khusus: Satu puak satu pihak dalam satu rumah Kongres pada salah satu cabang kerajaan menutup bahagian utama kerajaan, semua kerana mereka tidak seperti undang-undang,” kata Presiden itu.
‘Shut-down’ meletus selepas House Republikan yang dikawal Rakyat gagal mencapai persetujuan dengan Senat Demokrat yang diterajui berkaitan dengan lulus bajet persekutuan. Pada teras isu itu keengganan GOP untuk menerima Akta Penjagaan Mampu Obama, atau “ObamaCare”, yang akhirnya telah berkuat kuasa pagi Selasa di tengah-tengah ‘Shut-down’ walaupun sentimen negatif dari Parti Republikan.
“Ini penutupan Republikan tidak perlu berlaku, tetapi saya mahu setiap Amerika untuk memahami mengapa ia tidak berlaku,” kata Presiden itu pada Selasa. “Republikan di Dewan Rakyat enggan untuk membiayai kerajaan kecuali kita defunded atau dibongkar Akta Penjagaan Mampu. Mereka telah menutup kerajaan ke atas perang salib ideologi untuk menafikan insurans kesihatan yang berpatutan kepada berjuta-juta rakyat Amerika.”
“Dalam erti kata lain,” kata Obama, “mereka menuntut tebusan hanya untuk menjalankan tugas mereka.”
Dalam semua, kegagalan Kongres ‘berkompromi dengan bajet yang dijangka berakhir dengan 800,000 pekerja persekutuan dihantar pulang tanpa gaji dan shuttering taman negara dan program kerajaan banyak sekali.
“Veteran, yang telah berkorban untuk negara mereka, akan menemui pusat sokongan mereka unstaffed,” kata Obama petang Isnin sebelum tarikh akhir tengah malam datang dan pergi tanpa kompromi. “Pelancong akan mendapati setiap satu daripada taman-taman negara dan monumen Amerika, dari Yosemite kepada Smithsonian ke Statue pada Liberty, dengan serta-merta ditutup.”
Pada hari Selasa, Obama berkata beratus-ratus beribu-ribu pekerja awam, masih ramai di tempat kerja dan banyak dipaksa untuk pulang ke rumah, tidak dibayar “walaupun mereka mempunyai keluarga untuk menyokong dan perniagaan tempatan bergantung kepada mereka.”
“Kita tahu bahawa semakin lama penutupan ini berterusan, lebih teruk kesan akan lebih keluarga akan menyakiti, lebih banyak perniagaan akan dianiayai,” katanya. “Sekali lagi , saya menggesa House Republikan untuk membuka semula kerajaan. Memulakan semula perkhidmatan yang bergantung kepada rakyat Amerika.”
Apabila tarikh akhir tengah malam melanda awal hari ini, akaun Twitter presiden diumumkan, “Mereka sebenarnya ia lakukan. Sekumpulan Republikan di Dewan hanya memaksa penutupan kerajaan lebih Obamacare bukannya lulus bajet yang sebenar.”
Jam kemudian di taman mawar , presiden memberi amaran, “Kita mungkin tidak tahu kesan penuh ini penutupan Republikan untuk beberapa ketika. Ia akan bergantung kepada berapa lama ia berlangsung.”
Walau apa pun penutupan, walaupun, Presiden telah mengumumkan bahawa bermula pagi Selasa, berjuta-juta rakyat Amerika tidak diinsuranskan diberikan peluang untuk membeli penjagaan kesihatan yang berpatutan melalui undang-undang tanda beliau.
Bercakap mengenai kira-kira 15% peratus daripada rakyat Amerika tidak diinsuranskan, presiden itu berkata, “Bagi mereka, dan berjuta-juta seperti mereka, ini adalah hari yang bersejarah.”
Dan manakala Republikan sebahagian besarnya menentang pelan penjagaan kesihatan presiden sejak sebelum ia juga diluluskan dalam Kongres, Obama menolak tuduhan daripada lawannya yang masih belum terbukti tepat.
“Kebanyakan Republikan telah membuat sejumlah ramalan tentang undang-undang ini yang telah tidak menjadi kenyataan. Tiada panel kematian. Kos tidak meroket ,” katanya.
Obama berkata bahawa Amerika Syarikat sebenarnya telah mengalami kadar paling perlahan pertumbuhan perbelanjaan kesihatan pada rekod sejak pelan insurans beliau telah diumumkan, dan menambah bahawa permintaan untuk Obamacare begitu penting bahawa lebih daripada satu juta rakyat Amerika melawat laman web yang baru dilancarkan untuk program-program awal hari ini.
“Saya tahu ia adalah aneh bahawa satu pihak akan membuat menjaga orang yang diinsuranskan di tengah-tengah agenda mereka,” kata Obama Dewan Republikan.
Penutupan kerajaan terakhir berlaku pada tahun 1996 di tengah-tengah pentadbiran kemudian Presiden Bill Clinton.
Obama blasts Republicans, blames GOP for shutdown during
White House address
In an address from the White House rose garden Tuesday afternoon, President Barack Obama blamed Republican lawmakers for triggering the first government shutdown in nearly two decades.
Pres. Obama spoke on Tuesday roughly 12 hours after a longstanding budget stalemate on Capitol Hill caused a midnight shutdown impacting a number of government agencies and initiatives across the board.
“At midnight last night, for the first time in 17 years, the Republicans in Congress chose to shut down the federal government,” Obama began his address.
“Let me be more specific: One faction of one party in one house of Congress in one branch of government shut down major parts of the government, all because they didn’t like one law,” the president said.
The shut-down erupted after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives failed to come to agreement with the Democrat-led Senate with regards to passing the federal budget. At the core of the issue was the GOP’s reluctance to accept Obama’s Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” which finally went into effect Tuesday morning amid the shut-down notwithstanding negative sentiment from the Republican Party.
“This Republican shutdown did not have to happen, but I want every American to understand why it did happen,” the president said Tuesday. “Republicans in the House of Representatives refused to fund the government unless we defunded or dismantled the Affordable Care Act. They’ve shut down the government over an ideological crusade to deny affordable health insurance to millions of Americans.”
“In other words,” said Obama, “they demanded ransom just for doing their job.”
In all, Congress’ failure to compromise on a budget is expected to end with 800,000 federal workers being sent home without pay and the shuttering of national parks and government programs aplenty.
"Veterans, who've sacrificed for their country, will find their support centers unstaffed," Obama said Monday afternoon before the midnight deadline came and went without a compromise. "Tourists will find every one of America's national parks and monuments, from Yosemite to the Smithsonian to the Statue of Liberty, immediately closed."
On Tuesday, Obama said hundreds of thousands of civilian workers, many still on the job and many forced to go home, aren’t being paid “even if they have families to support and local business to rely on them.”
“We know that the longer this shutdown continues, the worse the effects will be more families will be hurt, more businesses will be harmed,” he said. “Once again, I urge House Republicans to reopen the government. Re-start the services that Americans depend on.”
When the midnight deadline hit early Tuesday, the presidential Twitter account announced, “They actually did it. A group of Republicans in the House just forced a government shutdown over Obamacare instead of passing a real budget.”
Hours later at the rose garden, the president warned, “We may not know the full impact of this Republican shutdown for some time. It will depend on how long it lasts.”
Notwithstanding the shutdown, though, the president announced that starting Tuesday morning, millions of uninsured Americans were provided the opportunity to purchase affordable health care through his hallmark legislation.
Speaking of the roughly 15 percent of uninsured Americans, the president said, “For them, and millions like them, this is a historic day.”
And while Republicans have largely opposed the president’s healthcare plan since before it was even approved in Congress, Obama dismissed allegations from his opponents that have yet to prove accurate.
“Most Republicans have made a whole bunch of predictions about this law that haven’t come true. There are no death panels. Costs haven’t skyrocketed,” he said.
Obama said that the US has actually experienced its slowest rate of health spending growth on record since his insurance plan was announced, and added that the demand for Obamacare was so significant that more than one million Americans visited newly launched websites for those programs early Tuesday.
“I know it’s strange that one party would make keeping people uninsured the centerpiece of their agenda,” Obama said of House Republicans.
The last government shutdown occurred in 1996 amid the administration of then-President Bill Clinton.
Obama on US Govt Shutdown over ObamaCare
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MADAyuMadyan - Ini adalah kali pertama dalam tempoh hampir 20 tahun kerajaan Amerika Syarikat telah dikisar terhenti atas perbezaan politik selari di Washington. Ia boleh mempunyai implikasi yang besar bagi seluruh dunia.
It is the first time in nearly 20 years US government has ground to a halt over irreconcilable political differences in Washington. It could have huge implications for the rest of the world.
+White+House+berkata.jpg "U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks alongside Americans (unseen) the White House says will benefit from the opening of health insurance marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, October 1, 2013. The U.S. government began a partial shutdown on Tuesday for the first time in 17 years, potentially putting up to 1 million workers on unpaid leave, closing national parks and stalling medical research projects. October 1, 2013. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - POLITICS BUSINESS HEALTH TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY– think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)")
