US Government shutdown: Washington's ineptitude forces budget crisis

Government shutdown 2013: After months of debate and brinkmanship, the US Congress has failed to pass a bill that authorises passage of the federal budget for the next fiscal year, triggering the first federal spending shutdown in 17 years. Channeling Newt Gingrich in 1995, Republican House Speaker John Boehner stymied the budget bill, cutting off hundreds of billions of dollars in spending