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1st LD: Obama says won't sign another short-term government funding bill

Xinhua, October 3, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday put pressure on Republican-controlled Congress to pass government funding bill and said he would not sign another stopgap funding bill like Congress sent earlier this week.

After month-long partisan fight over the government funding bill for fiscal year 2016 failed to yield results, a deeply divided Congress on Wednesday passed a short-term funding bill just hours before a possible government shutdown.

Slamming Republicans who now control the Congress, Obama warned of another potential "manufactured crisis" just two weeks before Christmas and said he would not signed another "shortsighted spending bill".

"I want to be very clear. I will not sign another short-sighted spending bill like the one Congress sent me this week," said Obama.

"So the bottom line is, Congress has to do its job. It can't flirt with another shutdown." Enditem