US braces for government shutdown over Obamacare

September 30, 2013 09:42

The United States braced for a partial government shutdown Tuesday after the White House and congressional Democrats declared they would reject a bill approved by the Republican-led House to delay implementing President Barack Obamas health care reform.

If the midnight Monday deadline passes without a deal, a shutdown would affect a wide range of government programs, from national parks to the Pentagon.

President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Senate rejected a late developing plan approved early Sunday by the Republican-run House of Representatives that would delay by a year implementing key parts of the new health care law and repeal a tax on many medical devices that helps finance the 2010 measure, in exchange for avoiding a shutdown.

The White House promised a veto and said Republicans were pursuing 'a narrow ideological agenda ... and pushing the government toward shutdown'. It seemed unlikely the president would get the chance to veto the bill because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate would reject the measure.

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