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Biden blames ‘extreme Republicans’ for threatening US government shutdown
3 years agoUS President Joe Biden speaks during the Phoenix awards dinner at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on September 23, 2023. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)
President Joe Biden on Saturday blamed "a small group of extreme Republicans" for a budget impasse that has placed the US government a week away from a shutdown, urging the lawmakers to resolve the issue.