{"id":84609,"date":"2025-10-17T15:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84609\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:58:27","slug":"how-the-fight-over-obamacare-is-driving-the-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84609\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Fight Over Obamacare Is Driving the Government Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  As the government shutdown heads into its third week tomorrow, we thought it was time to explain what it\u2019s really about. Yes, you can blame   partisan grandstanding and the winner-takes-all atmosphere that prevails in Washington, but Bloomberg News\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/bloomberg.com\/authors\/APy9NHwA6cQ\/john-tozzi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">John Tozzi<\/a> unpacks the health-care dispute that\u2019s become the focus of the standoff. Plus: A bank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-10-13\/the-banker-behind-the-trump-family-s-quick-wall-street-wins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">based at Trump Tower<\/a> has ties to the first family that run deeper than that, and US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-13\/highest-us-tariffs-since-1930s-are-redrawing-global-trade-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">tariffs are creating new alliances<\/a> among other trading nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  If this email was forwarded to you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/businessweek?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=businessweek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">click here to sign up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the government shutdown heads into its third week tomorrow, we thought it was time to explain what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64552,41943,31956,8310,40102,266,134,527,8307,111,139,69,15584,15580,2988,5189],"class_list":["post-84609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-barack-h-obama","tag-bloomberg-businessweek","tag-businessweek","tag-congress","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-government","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-law","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-obamacare","tag-u-s-democrats","tag-washington","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}