The US Congress on Wednesday approved an
11th-hour deal to end a partial government shutdown and pull the world's
biggest economy back from the brink of a historic debt default that could have
threatened financial calamity.
The White House budget office told hundreds of
thousands of federal workers, the bulk of whom had been idle for the past 16
days, to be ready to return to work on Thursday.
The standoff between Republicans and the White
House over funding the government forced the temporary lay-off of hundreds of
thousands of federal workers from October 1 and created concern that
crisis-driven politics was the "new normal" in Washington.
"It is one of the most shameful chapters I
have seen in the years I've spent in the Senate," said McCain, who had
warned Republicans not to link their demands for Obamacare changes to the debt limit or government spending bill. Polls
showed Republicans took a hit in public opinion over the standoff.
But Cruz, a Tea Party-backed senator with 2016
presidential aspirations, denounced the fiscal accord as a "terrible
deal" and accused fellow Republicans of giving in too easily in their bid
to derail Obamacare.
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