... decided they would rather make an ideological point by demanding the sabotage of the healthcare law". The New York Times said Mark Zandi, the chief economist for Moody's Analytics, estimated that a partial shutdown would trim annual economic growth ...
http://news.sky.com/story/1148200/us-shutdown-looms-as-congress-squabbles
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