DHAKA: US president Barack Obama on Saturday called for an end to ‘manufactured crises and self-inflicted wounds’ as he urged Republicans and Democrats in Congress to approve a new federal budget.

Obama, speaking in his weekly radio address, said that what most people hear out of Washington is ‘a jumble of unfocused noise that’s out of touch with the things you care about’.

‘So today, I want to cut through that noise and talk plainly about what we should do right now,’ he said, reports The Straits Times.

‘It begins by ending what has done more than anything else to undermine our economy over the past few years, and that’s the constant cycle of manufactured crises and self-inflicted wounds.’

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