This article is about the President meeting with congressional leaders today at 3 p.m. E.T. to hopefully come to an agreement. They will be discussing a deal to raise the debt ceiling, ending the government shutdown. Senators Reid and McConnell seem to be quite optimistic that an agreement will be reached but the President said: "We'll see this afternoon whether this progress is real."
I think that President Obama is completely right when he said: "There are going to be differences between the parties,there are going to be differences in terms of budget priorities. But we don't need to inflict pain on the American people, or risk the possibility of America's full faith and credit being damaged just because one side is not getting its way." (article) This whole shutdown is a bit silly. Differences don't need to start an all out war. I like to think that they will be able to come to an agreement, but we'll just have to see. Congress needs to work together, not tear our nation apart.
It's funny to think that a bunch of teenagers in our class are like "this shutdown is a bunch of kids fighting!" It amazes me that they aren't seeing how this is affecting the country and realizing that somethings are worse than funding things we don't agree with. The whole this is silly and I agree that they need to work together. :)
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