US President Barack Obama on Saturday called for an end to ‘manufactured crises and self-inflicted wounds’ as he urged Republicans and Democrats in Congress to approve a new federal budget.
Obama, speaking in his weekly radio address, said that what most people hear out of Washington is ‘a jumble of unfocused noise that’s out of touch with the things you care about.
‘So today, I want to cut through that noise and talk plainly about what we should do right now,’ he said. ‘It begins by ending what has done more than anything else to undermine our economy over the past few years - and that’s the constant cycle of manufactured crises and self-inflicted wounds.’
Obama spoke a little more than two weeks after the United States scraped through a bitter budget and debt ceiling battle that threatened to send the country into default and forced the 16-day partial federal government shutdown, but only by using stop-gap measures that pushed the battle deadlines forward.
Obama, speaking in his weekly radio address, said that what most people hear out of Washington is ‘a jumble of unfocused noise that’s out of touch with the things you care about.
‘So today, I want to cut through that noise and talk plainly about what we should do right now,’ he said. ‘It begins by ending what has done more than anything else to undermine our economy over the past few years - and that’s the constant cycle of manufactured crises and self-inflicted wounds.’
Obama spoke a little more than two weeks after the United States scraped through a bitter budget and debt ceiling battle that threatened to send the country into default and forced the 16-day partial federal government shutdown, but only by using stop-gap measures that pushed the battle deadlines forward.