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Government Shutdown and President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama: Republicans are deeply divided over the president likely actions and have spent much of the week intensely debating how to respond. Some conservative members have threatened to pursue a government shutdown and one House lawmaker has raised the spectre of impeachment. , according to CBC. On mobile and can't see the video? Watch here In a move that could provoke one the most pitched partisan confrontations of his presidency, President Barack Obama will sidestep Congress and unveil administrative actions on immigration Thursday, measures that could spare from deportation as many as five million people illegally in the U.S. The president will use a primetime address to announce his measures and will sign the executive actions during a rally in Las Vegas on Friday. In doing so, Obama will be taking an aggressive stand that he had once insisted was beyond his presidential power. Post by The White House . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.