NBC晚间新闻 预算妥协的时间所剩无几

Time running out for budget compromise

预算妥协的时间所剩无几

The clock is ticking down to a potential government shutdown, but even if a deal is reached to avert¹ the crisis, it’s one that will actually cost voters extra money. NBC’s Chuck Todd reports.

时间正在逼近一次潜在的政府关门，但是即使交易达成避免了危机，实际上这也会花费选民额外的钱。NBC的Chuck Todd报道。

Back in this country, specifically the nation's capital, the tone is getting uglier than normal in Washington as lawmakers argue over funding the health care law, leaving the country just days from a possible government shutdown. The polling shows most Americans do not support. Our chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd following it all from our DC Newsroom tonight. Chuck good evening.

reporter: Good evening, Brian. Another day of disfunction and squabbling here in Washington as the clock ticks down for the potential government shutdown. republicans trying to defund the president's health care law. To do this shutdown. But guess what, even if they avert the shutdown it's a deal that will actually cost you more money. [ applause ]

reporter: At a rally in suburban² Maryland today an exasperated³ president.

We are not going to submit to this kind of total irresponsibility. Congress needs the to pay our bills on time. Congress need s to pass a budget on time. Congress needs to put an end to governing from crisis to crisis.

reporter: The republican speaker, just as frustrated⁵.

The president says I'm not going to negotiate. Well, I'm sorry. but it just doesn't work that way.

reporter: Time is running out.

Every hour that ticks by puts our country closer to a shutdown.

reporter: Tea party republicans Ted⁴ Cruz and Mike Lee continued to delay the potential compromise, angrying members of their own party.

It is not the republican side that's asking to stall. We have only two republican senators that are wanting to push this off.

reporter: Still, whatever short-term compromise is made it will cost taxpayers⁶ extra money. Here's why. The government saves money when it buys things in bulk like ordinary people do at a big box grocery store. But short-term spending bills like the one congress is about to pass means the government has to pay higher, reretail-like prices.

It is a very poor way of a government let alone a household to operate.

reporter: And the public is mad. 80% of Americans said they opposed the tactic⁷ of using a government shutdown for political leverage⁸.

They need to get their act together. They're like children.

I'm sick of congress, both sides either way. Decide what you're going to do.

It seems irresponsible. I think we want more from our elected officials.

reporter: Experts say the larger problem is that congress hasn't agreed on a real budget for four years, forcing this political standoffs and stop-gap spending bills.

We budget by automatic continuing resolutions which is a mindless way to do it. It doesn't pick and choose priorities. It doesn't say what should we fund more of and importantly what should we get rid of.

reporter: Even if we get past Monday's shutdown deadline another looms⁹. The nation's credit card will be cancelled October 17th and the government won't be able to borrow money if they don't raise the debt ceiling, so here we go again.

Chuck Todd at our DC Newsroom with all of us, Chuck, thanks.

1 avert   

v.防止，避免；转移(目光、注意力等)

参考例句：

• He managed to avert suspicion.他设法避嫌。
• I would do what I could to avert it.我会尽力去避免发生这种情况。

2 suburban   

adj.城郊的，在郊区的

参考例句：

• Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
• There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。

3 exasperated   

adj.恼怒的

参考例句：

• We were exasperated at his ill behaviour. 我们对他的恶劣行为感到非常恼怒。
• Constant interruption of his work exasperated him. 对他工作不断的干扰使他恼怒。

4 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

5 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 taxpayers   

纳税人，纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
• She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。

7 tactic   

n.战略，策略；adj.战术的，有策略的

参考例句：

• Reducing prices is a common sales tactic.降价是常用的销售策略。
• She had often used the tactic of threatening to resign.她惯用以辞职相威胁的手法。

8 leverage   

n.力量，影响；杠杆作用，杠杆的力量

参考例句：

• We'll have to use leverage to move this huge rock.我们不得不借助杠杆之力来移动这块巨石。
• He failed in the project because he could gain no leverage. 因为他没有影响力，他的计划失败了。

9 looms   

n.织布机( loom的名词复数 )v.隐约出现，阴森地逼近( loom的第三人称单数 )；隐约出现，阴森地逼近

参考例句：

• All were busily engaged,men at their ploughs,women at their looms. 大家都很忙，男的耕田，女的织布。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The factory has twenty-five looms. 那家工厂有25台织布机。 来自《简明英汉词典》