User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-1515612-20131002031013/@comment-1515612-20131002220830

Congress is not going to "give in". The senate is democratically controlled while the House is GOP controlled which means that the senate passes the budget with the Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare, whatever). Then the House shoots it down because they want to delay Obamacare for one year (meaning permanently delaying it) and defund it. 800,000 government workers sent home with no pay. Meanwhile, Congress get's paid because of the 27th amendment.

Congress has one job. To pass bills. They can't pass a bill.