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“He went on to talk about a government shutdown. That’s another scam. There’s a very sinister going on about that shutdown. Because behind the scenes, Republicans and Democrats are complicit ... it’s a war on millions of ordinary people in America. It’s called austerity.”

Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives continue to insist on changes to Obama's healthcare reform law as a condition of reopening the government.

Large functions of the US government shut down on Tuesday after the Democratic-led Senate voted to reject the latest proposal by the Republican-led House of Representatives that would temporarily fund the government in return for a one-year delay of Obama’s controversial healthcare plan.