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  • 2018-01-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Trump Criticize Obama for a Lack of Leadership During the 2013 Government Shutdown? (en)
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  • In October 2013, during the administration of President Barack Obama, the United States government underwent a budget impasse that led to a shutdown, resulting in most routine government operations being curtailed for the first seventeen days of the month. The shutdown occurred because neither legislation appropriating funds for fiscal year 2014 nor a continuing resolution for interim appropriations was approved in time, largely due to Republican attempts to tie government funding to resolutions delaying or defunding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare). The U.S. government experienced another shutdown in January 2018, during the administration of President Donald Trump. Republicans blamed Democrats for creating the budget impasse by holding out on fixing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, while Democrats blamed Republicans for a failure to govern and President Trump for reneging on earlier agreements: Donald Trump (then a private citizen) was highly critical of President Obama in over the 2013 government shutdown, and President Trump's critics gleefully turned the table on him in January 2018 by casting his own words back at him: We couldn't find an exact match for the words quoted above, which don't appear in any tweet posted by Donald Trump in 2013; they are more likely a paraphrase or summary of one or more comments Trump made during several television appearances in the latter part of 2013. For example, speaking by telephone to the hosts of Fox & Friends on 20 September 2013, Trump chided President Obama for failing to get everybody in a room and creating a situation [that's] very embarrassing worldwide: And during an October 2013 interview with Fox News host Greta van Susteren, Trump again took President Obama to task for failing to be a dealmaker: And, of course, as Donald Trump noted in the immediate aftermath of the 2013 government shutdown: Four and half years later, Donald Trump found himself on the receiving end of that sentiment, in spades: (en)
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