WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — President Barack Obama said Friday he will no longer sign any more short-term spending bills, after signing one into law to keep the federal government open this week. That bill funds the government through the early part of December. “It can’t flirt with another shutdown,” he said of Congress. Obama linked austerity created by the sequester to the slower-than-forecast 143,000 jobs created in September.
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