Sentence examples for a shutdown party from inspiring English sources

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On Tuesday evening, approximately 15 furloughed government employees gathered in the Port Tobacco, Md., home of Ashley Brincefield, a 29-year-old federal employee who works for Customs and Border Protection, for what Ms. Brincefield called a "survive the government shutdown party".

For Ms. Brincefield and some of the roughly 800,000 other furloughed government workers, impromptu shutdown parties proved one way to take advantage of the lights going off in the nation's capital.

An ABC/Washington Post poll found similar results, while a CNBC poll found that Republicans as a whole wanted to avoid a shutdown, but tea party Republicans did not.

Republicans dispute the notion that they are angling for a shutdown, pointing out that party leaders have said they have no interest in reaching that point.

Reid's spokesman, Jon Summers, likened the maneuver to a "dress rehearsal for a shutdown that the tea party so desires".

Even if a deal can be reached and a shutdown averted, the two parties will then move on to potentially bigger fights over raising the national debt ceiling, cutting spending for next year and addressing the long-term growth of entitlement programs — a topic the House Budget Committee plans to put on the front burner in coming weeks.

"I'm actually not that sure," Reid said of avoiding a shutdown, "because the Tea Party-driven House of Representatives has been so unreasonable in the past".

"For Congress to ask for a shutdown when the opposite political party is in charge of the White House is my definition of insanity," Mr. Horowitz said.

Adam Kinzinger, a Republican congressman from Illinois, said that once voters realized the damage that could be caused by a shutdown, they might push his party out of control of the House.

Democrats said Mr. Boehner was increasingly caught between conservative members of his rank-and-file who were insisting that House Republicans not budge from the $61 billion in cuts already approved by the House and his own efforts to find an agreement and avoid a shutdown that could damage his party.