Echec des négociations pour mettre fin au shutdown.
Les sénateurs republicans ont offert de prolonger le debt ceiling actuel de 6 semaines. Mais Obama a refusé, déclarant qu'il ne peut pas être "l'otage" du House (parlement).
Les négociations n'ont plus lieu. Les sénateurs GOP accusent Obama de ne rien offrir et mettent l'échec des négociations sur son compte. Un sénateur a déclaré que même si on arrive à un accord dans les 24 heures, les procédures ne permettront pas la "réouverture" du gouvernement avant Mercredi. L'ombre du default Us se profilerait ainsi à l'horizon.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/o ... l-shutdownCiter:
There appears to be little prospect of a deal before markets opened on Monday. All eyes are now on the deadline of Thursday, when the $16.7tn debt limit must be raised in order for the Treasury to continue paying its creditors. Even if a deal between Reid and McConnell is reached over the next 24 hours, procedural complications mean a vote might not be taken until Wednesday or even Thursday, a senior congressional aide said.
As the four senators met on Saturday morning, on the other side of the Capitol Building, Republican members of the House arrived for a closed-door-meeting with the speaker, John Boehner.
The Republican leader informed his fellow representatives that discussions with the president had not yielded any prospect of a deal. "The president rejected our deal," said the Idaho representative Raul Labrador, immediately after the meeting. "It is now up to the Senate Republicans to hold firm." Representative Thomas Massey, of Kentucky, added: "We made an offer to the president and he turned it down. He's still refusing to negotiate – the president is refusing to offer anything."