Government Shut Up: Case Study

Government Shut Down
The government of 2013 occurred revolving around the issue to approve the funding of the Federal Fiscal Year for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The House of Representatives was led by the Republicans and the Senate was led by the Democrat’s. Certain members of the Republican Party known as The Tea Party were totally against the bill being past. When the bill was sent to the House of Representatives for approval they would reword the bill and send it over to the Senate. Rewording included wording that would either delay the bill or abolish The Affordable Care Act all together. When the Senate would receive the bill after changes they would deny it and the process would have to start all over again. This process when on back and forth up until the deadline of September 30, 2013. Since the bill had not been approved the
Since the United States Constitution requires that all government funding be approved through a bill pass by Congress it must be approved by both the House of Representatives and the Senate before the President signs off on it. The House of Representatives in this case did not want to support the Affordable Care Act which is also know to the population as Obamacare. Since the bill must be approved by their house before the Senate can approve it they simply made sure that the bills they sent to the Senate party would not be what they wanted and knew that the Senate would deny it and they could by more time. This process of when a New Year budget funding approval has not been met by the deadline causes a funding gap. A funding gap is when the government is not able to meet the funding required for a program or department to operate, not having the money to run the program or department causes the