1 October 2013
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US begins government shutdown as budget deadline passes
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The US government has begun a partial shutdown after the two houses of Congress failed to agree a new budget.
The Republican-led House of Representatives insisted on
delaying President Barack Obama's healthcare reform - dubbed Obamacare -
as a condition for passing a bill.
More than 700,000 federal employees face unpaid leave with no guarantee of back pay once the deadlock is over.
It is the first shutdown in 17 years and the dollar fell early on Tuesday.
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The Republican leadership looks and feels trapped - they made demands that they knew wouldn't be met rather than be accused of weakness and betrayal by their own hardliners”
Goldman Sachs estimates a three-week shutdown could shave as much as 0.9% from US GDP this quarter.
On Tuesday, Mr Obama blamed the House of Representatives for
the stalemate and said he would "keep working to get Congress to reopen
the government [and] restart vital services".
"This shutdown was completely preventable. It should not have happened," he wrote in a letter to federal government employees.
"And the House of Representatives can end it as soon as it
follows the Senate's lead, and funds your work in the United States
Government without trying to attach highly controversial and partisan
measures in the process."
On Monday, House Speaker John Boehner told reporters he hoped
the Senate would agree to a committee between the two chambers known as
a conference "so we can resolve this for the American people".
"The House has voted to keep the government open but we also want basic fairness for all Americans under Obamacare," he said.
But on Tuesday morning, the Senate voted 54-46 to reject the request for formal negotiations to end the impasse.
Who is affected?
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- State department will be able to operate for limited time
- Department of defence will continue military operations
- Department of education will still distribute $22bn (£13.6bn) to public schools, but staffing is expected to be severely hit
- Department of energy - 12,700 staff expected to be sent home, with 1,113 remaining to oversee nuclear arsenal
- Department of health and human services expected to send home more than half of staff
- The Federal Reserve, dept of homeland security, and justice dept will see little or no disruption
- US Postal Services continue as normal
- Smithsonian institutions, museums, zoos and many national parks will close
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Timeline: US budget crisis
- 20 September: House votes to scrap funding for Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")
- 30 September: Congress passes two budget bills coupled to Obamacare, both rejected by Senate
- 1 October: Key provisions of Obamacare come into force despite shutdown
- 17 October: Deadline for extending government borrowing limit, or debt ceiling
The BBC's Mark Mardell in Washington says the divide in US politics has grown so bitter that government itself cannot function.
Democrats were never likely to make concessions on healthcare
reform - Mr Obama's signature achievement and a central issue in last
year's presidential election, our correspondent says.
But Republicans have made demands that they knew would not be
met rather than be accused of weakness and betrayal by their own
hardliners, he adds.
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On Monday, the Democratic-led Senate twice rejected bills from
House Republicans that would have funded the government only if funding
for President Obama's healthcare law was delayed for a year.
Major portions of the healthcare law, which passed in 2010
and has been validated by the US Supreme Court, took effect on Tuesday
regardless of whether there is a shutdown.
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A shutdown would have "a very real economic impact on real
people, right away," he said, adding it would "throw a wrench" into the
US recovery.
"The idea of putting the American people's hard-earned
progress at risk is the height of irresponsibility, and it doesn't have
to happen."
As the shutdown neared, the Senate's Democratic majority
leader blamed Republicans for the imminent halt to all non-essential
government operations.
"It will be a Republican government shutdown, pure and simple," said Harry Reid, referring to the Republicans as "bullies".
Mr Obama has signed legislation ensuring that military
personnel would be paid. The defence department had advised employees
that uniformed members of the military would continue on normal duty,
but that large numbers of civilian workers would be told to stay home.
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Editorial, Chicago Tribune: Once Republicans and Democrats stop grandstanding... we think there's an easy solution to this impasse.
US media
Michael Gerson, Washington Post: We are no longer seeing a revolt against the Republican leadership, or even against the Republican "establishment"; this revolt is against anyone who accepts the constraints of political reality.Editorial, Chicago Tribune: Once Republicans and Democrats stop grandstanding... we think there's an easy solution to this impasse.
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Patrick Welter, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany: The failure to reach agreement casts a dark shadow on the next and more important forthcoming round in the fiscal row.
Andrew Coyne, National Post, Canada: The result of all this haggling, taken together, has been just the sort of balanced approach, mixing spending cuts and tax increases, that experts advise.
International media
Pierre-Yves Dugua, Le Figaro, France: The [US] is being humiliated by the inability of its political system to carry out its primary mission: to pass a budget.Patrick Welter, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany: The failure to reach agreement casts a dark shadow on the next and more important forthcoming round in the fiscal row.
Andrew Coyne, National Post, Canada: The result of all this haggling, taken together, has been just the sort of balanced approach, mixing spending cuts and tax increases, that experts advise.
Under the shutdown, national
parks and Washington's Smithsonian museums will close, pension and
veterans' benefit cheques will be delayed, and visa and passport
applications will go unprocessed.
Programmes deemed essential, such as air traffic control and food inspections, will continue.
The US government has not undergone a shutdown since 1995-96, when services were suspended for a record 21 days.
Republicans demanded then-President Bill Clinton agree to their version of a balanced budget.
As lawmakers grappled with the latest shutdown, the 17
October deadline for extending the government's borrowing limit looms
even larger.
On that date, the US government will reach the limit at which it can borrow money to pay its bills, the so-called debt ceiling.
House Republicans have also demanded a series of policy
concessions - including on the president's health law and on financial
and environmental regulations - in exchange for raising the debt
ceiling.
Guy Crundwell from Connecticut told the BBC that politicians
should be solving the country's problems rather than engaging in a
"charade".
"I am very fiscally conservative but for moral issues I lean
towards the Democrats, but I'll be damned if I want to see either of
them wasting my money on this sort of posturing."
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Comment number 494.
Dont Run Away Dub
10 Hours agoThis comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain. -
Comment number 493.
chui
10 Hours agoConsidering the fundamentally flawed system that does not work plus the US Congress in which 90% of the people have no confidence, it is inevitable.US Supreme Court over two years ago ruled that affordable health care is Constitutional over GOP facade and perversity of inequality. Some over 150 Republican bills to repeal the law have failed. Not to fund is illegal. Obama needs an E. Order -
Comment number 492.
Argent Pur
10 Hours agoWhat is so ironic is the US spends over $740bn on defense & homeland security per year, to defend themselves from terrorists and preserve the American way of life. That spending is destroying America, the terrorists are winning without doing anything
The Roman & Greek empires collapsed as they spent more & more on their armies fighting in far away lands, destroying the money supply back home. -
Comment number 491.
Billythefirst
1st October 2013 - 23:58Ironic that a country with the worlds largest employer, a public sector employer, is being held to ransom by right wing nuts who oppose public healthcare.
I suppose irony is lost on these rabid republicans - ditto the fact that the two biggest debt ceiling raisers are Reagan and Dubya. -
Comment number 490.
MakeEveryDayCount
1st October 2013 - 23:55#472 Dun. "EU to be next world power"
Surely not any time soon; If it tried to become a state, UK would quit & German power is potentially very unstable, particularly in relation to France. If USA fails, China is almost ready to step in it's place. I just hope this "Carry On Up The Potomac" farce ends soon.
Buntut dari Pemerintahan Amerika Serikat ditutup??..
Rabu, 02/10/2013 07:18 WIB
Foto: Reuters
Jakarta - http://finance.detik.com/read/2013/10/02/073538/2375063/4/1/buntut-dari-ditutupnya-pemerintahan-asf990101mainnews#bigpic
Selasa dini hari waktu
setempat, secara tak terduga pemerintahan Amerika Serikat (AS) ditutup.
Pasalnya, tidak terjadi kesepakatan atas anggaran pemerintah oleh
Kongres AS setelah perdebatan panjang antara Partai Demokrat dan
Republik.
Akhirnya setelah 17 tahun, pemerintahan AS ditutup lagi. Penutupan ini bukan yang pertama, tapi yang ke-18 kali sejak pertama kali terjadi pada 1976 di bawah pimpinan Presiden Gerald Ford.
Presiden Barack Obama harus menerima kenyataan pahit ini. Lalu apa saja yang terjadi setelah tutupnya pemerintahan ini? Simak hasil penelusuran detikFinance di sini, Rabu (2/10/2013).
Akhirnya setelah 17 tahun, pemerintahan AS ditutup lagi. Penutupan ini bukan yang pertama, tapi yang ke-18 kali sejak pertama kali terjadi pada 1976 di bawah pimpinan Presiden Gerald Ford.
Presiden Barack Obama harus menerima kenyataan pahit ini. Lalu apa saja yang terjadi setelah tutupnya pemerintahan ini? Simak hasil penelusuran detikFinance di sini, Rabu (2/10/2013).
Seluruh dunia bisa kena imbasnya
Foto: Wikipedia
Jakarta - http://finance.detik.com/read/2013/10/02/071834/2375054/4/patung-liberty-pun-ditutup-untuk-umum
Buntut dari ditutupnya pemerintahan
Amerika Serikat (AS) menjalar ke berbagai sektor, di antaranya adalah
taman, sarana umum serta museum dan monumen nasional. Patung Liberty
yang berada di dekat Pulau Ellis, New York, pun ikut ditutup.
"Kalau di New York itu yang paling terasa adalah taman dan museum yang ditutup. Patung Liberty dan Pulau Ellis juga ditutup," oleh salah satu mahasiswa Indonesia di New York University, Pilar Wirotama kepada detikFinance, Rabu (2/10/2013).
Menurutnya, kantor pemerintahan di New York masih akan buka melayani publik, begitu pula dengan sarana transportasi publik seperti subway alias kereta bawah tanah.
"Imbasnya (dari penutupan pemerintahan AS) belum terasa. Lagipula yang kena imbas hanya sebagian layanan pemerintahan saja," ujarnya.
Ditutupnya sarana umum seperti taman, monumen nasional dan museum ini tidak hanya berimbah kepada turis yang sudah jauh-jauh datang dan harus kecewa, tetapi dirasakan juga oleh para pedagangan souvenir di tempat-tempat tersebut.
"Yang paling kena imbasnya itu turis dan pedagang souvenir di skeitar lokasi," tambahnya.
Seperti diketahui, Pemerintah AS belum memutuskan sampai kapan kegiatan operasional pemerintahan dihentikan.
Perintah penutupan layanan kantor pemerintah diedarkan 10 menit sebelum pemerintah AS dinyatakan kehabisan uang. Ini karena pihak legislatif tidak menyetujui anggaran baru, yang isinya antara lain menaikkan batas utang pemerintah sehingga bisa menjalankan negara.
Saat ini, kas pemerintah AS menipis karena tidak diperbolehkan menambah utang, untuk menjalankan sejumlah program baru Presiden Barack Obama.(ang/ang).
"Kalau di New York itu yang paling terasa adalah taman dan museum yang ditutup. Patung Liberty dan Pulau Ellis juga ditutup," oleh salah satu mahasiswa Indonesia di New York University, Pilar Wirotama kepada detikFinance, Rabu (2/10/2013).
Menurutnya, kantor pemerintahan di New York masih akan buka melayani publik, begitu pula dengan sarana transportasi publik seperti subway alias kereta bawah tanah.
"Imbasnya (dari penutupan pemerintahan AS) belum terasa. Lagipula yang kena imbas hanya sebagian layanan pemerintahan saja," ujarnya.
Ditutupnya sarana umum seperti taman, monumen nasional dan museum ini tidak hanya berimbah kepada turis yang sudah jauh-jauh datang dan harus kecewa, tetapi dirasakan juga oleh para pedagangan souvenir di tempat-tempat tersebut.
"Yang paling kena imbasnya itu turis dan pedagang souvenir di skeitar lokasi," tambahnya.
Seperti diketahui, Pemerintah AS belum memutuskan sampai kapan kegiatan operasional pemerintahan dihentikan.
Perintah penutupan layanan kantor pemerintah diedarkan 10 menit sebelum pemerintah AS dinyatakan kehabisan uang. Ini karena pihak legislatif tidak menyetujui anggaran baru, yang isinya antara lain menaikkan batas utang pemerintah sehingga bisa menjalankan negara.
Saat ini, kas pemerintah AS menipis karena tidak diperbolehkan menambah utang, untuk menjalankan sejumlah program baru Presiden Barack Obama.(ang/ang).
Misi-misi Militer AS Jadi Tidak Jelas
Foto: Reuters
Menteri Pertahanan Amerika Serikat (AS) Chuck Hagel
memberi peringatan bahwa ditutupnya pemerintahan bisa berimbas buruk
terhadap keamanan dan pertahanan AS. Pasalnya banyak misi-misi militer
AS yang selama ini sudah berjalan di seluruh dunia bisa berujung tidak
jelas.Meskipun Presiden AS Barack Obama memastikan para tentara AS tetap akan mendapatkan gaji dan melanjutkan tugasnya, tapi penutupan pemerintahan ini akan merusak kredibilitas Paman Sam di mata internasional.
Hal itu dikemukakan Hagel di Seoul, saat berkunjung melakukan kunjungan dua negara yaitu Korea Selatan dan Jepang, Selasa (1/10/2013).
Kunjungan Hagel ke dua negara itu dalam rangka mempererat kerjasama militer di kedua negara. Ia pun menyalahkan para anggota Kongres AS yang tidak bisa menyetujui anggara tepat pada waktunya.
"Awan gelap ketidakpastian ini... berimbas kepada misi (militer) kami di seluruh du nia. Hal ini jadi pertanyaan atas komitmen kami terhadap para sekutu,"katanya seperti dikutip dari AFP.
Meskipun demikian, ia tetap yakin kegiatan militer AS tidak akan kena imbas yang terlalu dalam. "Tapi ada imbas yang signifikan terhadap kredibilitas kami di mata sekutu," tambahnya.
Dolar AS langsung melemah
Foto: Wikipedia
Dolar AS langsung jatuh terhadap sejumlah mata uang
di Asia. kemarin dolar AS di Tokyo berada di level 98,16 yen, turun dari
sebelumnya 98,7 yen.Tak hanya dengan yen, dolar juga melemah dibandingkan mata uang lainnya di Asia Pasifik. Di India, dolar melemah dari 62,78 rupee menjadi 62,35 rupee. Demikian juga di Singapura, dolar melemehan dari SG$ 1,257 menjadi SG$ 1,2531. Di Indonesia, dolar melemah dari Rp 11.655 menjadi Rp 11.239.
Aksi korporasi tertunda
Foto: Wikipedia
Imbas dari ditutupnya kegiatan pemerintahan AS ini
sampai juga ke Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) yang berhenti
beroperasi. Wasit pasar modal AS itu diminta untuk menghentikan seluruh
registrasi baru terkait pasar modal, seperti initial public offering
(IPO), rights issue, dan sebagainya.Hal ini berujung kepada molornya (atau bahkan sampai batal) rencana IPO perusahaan yang saat ini masih mengantri, di antaranya adalah Twitter dan pemilik game Candy Crush.
Raksasa jejaring sosial Twitter sebelumnya sudah mengirimkan dokumen untuk melangsungkan penawaran umum saham perdana alias IPO ke SEC. Nilai IPO-nya diperkirakan ada di rentang US$ 10-20 miliar (Rp 100-200 triliun).
Twitter sendiri belum tidak mau berkomentar banyak, selain hanya mengumumkan sudah melaporkan seluruh keperluan IPO tersebut kepada otoritas bursa melalui kicauan alias tweet yang di-posting oleh manajemen.
Sementara King.com, perusahaan di London pembuat Candy Crush telah menyiapkan segala persyaratan dokumen S-1 dengan Securities and Exchange Comission. Dikabarkan nilai IPO tersebut akan mencapai US$ 5 juta (Rp 50 miliar).
Pemerintah AS belum memutuskan sampai kapan kegiatan operasional pemerintahan dihentikan. Aksi korporasi dua perusahaan yang bergerak di dunia maya itu harus ditunda sampai SEC kembali beroperasi normal.
Fasilitas umum banyak ditutup
Foto: Reuters
Beberapa tempat wisata populer di ibu kota AS,
Washington, akan ditutup termasuk FDR Memorial, The Kennedy Center for
Performing Arts, Perpustakaan Kongres, Lincoln Memorial, Arsip Nasional,
Kebun Binatang Nasional dan semua Museum. Tak ada pekerja yang bertugas
menjaga tempat itu semua karena gaji yang tidak akan dibayarkan. PNS dirumahkan sementara, gaji tidak dibayar
Foto: Reuters
Sekitar 800.000 PNS di pemerintahan pusat AS tidak
akan dapat gaji. Mereka masuk hitungan cuti panjang sampai ada kejelasan
dana dan anggaran dari masing-masing Kementerian. Operasional stasiun luar angkasa masih berjalan walau nantinya banyak kendala. NASA tetap mengoperasikan International Space Station meskipun tanpa pekerja. Karena 18.000 pekerjanya harus dirumahkan tanpa mendapatkan gaji sepeser pun.
Hampir setengah dari 800.000 PNS pemerintah AS bekerja di Kementerian Pertahanan. Para pekerja Pentagon tidak akan mendapatkan gaji karena tidak lagi ada anggarannya.
Pentagon merupakan markas Kementerian Pertahanan AS di Arlington, Virginia dekat Washington D.C.
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