The Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who appeared in five of the programs, said in terms serious damage to the economy arising from the partial government shutdown, and even greater damage if authorized by Congress does not increase national debt.
Meanwhile, the Republican senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, considered the leader of the faction in Congress that has left the federal government funds since October 1, reiterated on Sunday his belief that intransigence is in the White House for refusing to negotiate with them.
Cruz and other lawmakers aligned with the citizen movement Tea Party, staunch enemy of central power, condition and even funds increased national debt to be deprived of funding health care reform enacted by Obama in 2010.
Congressional controversial statements
Cruz Sunday showed no willingness to relax its position and said that the attacks that target the Democrats, and the admonitions of some of his Republican colleagues in the Senate are proof that "we are winning."
Recently, they caused scandal several private statements that both Democrats and Republicans responsible acknowledged that they did not care how long the conflict because, in his opinion, the political paralysis benefits their respective parties.
Obama had to intervene to disallow the claim of a White House official, quoted anonymously by the conservative daily The Wall Street Journal, that Democrats "were making" pulse to the public.
The fact is that, not only officials temporarily licensed, but the general population increasingly note the effects of administrative paralysis in specific services such as the vaccination campaign, the closure of public day care, delay immigration procedures, the health checkups, or simply tourist trips.
