President Obama on Saturday urged Congress to approve a budget to keep the government open after Oct. 1 — a🧸nd raise the debt ceiling so the country can pay its bill🦋s.
Congressional Republicans want to take neither action in thei🎶r attempt to defund ObamaCare.
In a keynote speech before the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the president said he would n🅠ever give i🌼n to attempts to strip funding from his signature health-care law.
⛎“We will not negotiate over whether or not America sꦉhould keep its word or meet its obligation,” he said.
If a budget “doesn’t pass before September 30th — a week from Monday — the government will shut down,” Obama said in his weeღkly Saturday-morning broadcast address. “And so will many services the American people expect.”
Ob♔ama warned that soldiers overseas could see their payc🍌hecks stopped.
Congress must also raise the limit on government borrowing, as the federal government 🤪is expected to run out๊ of money by around the middle of October — a scenario that could result in world stock markets tumbling.
“Since the 1950s, Congress has always passed it, and every president has signed it — Democrats and Republicans,” including conservative icꦉon Ronald Rea🐼gan, Obama said.