Back in September and October 2013, then-President Obama sharply criticized congressional Republicans for forcing a government shutdown over opposition to the Affordable Care Act. He called it “total irresponsibility” and likened it to “blackmail”, saying: “No Congress before this one has ever, ever, in history, been irresponsible enough to threaten default just to get its way”

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