Government Shut Down

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The cartoon is called Government Shutdown. The elephant in the red represents the Republican. The donkey in the blue represents the Democrats. Both of them have shirts on with an arrow pointing to each other that says "He shut down the government." The message of the cartoon is that, the Democrats and Republicans are blaming each other for not coming to a budget agreement, causing a government shut down. The Republicans are saying that we need to cut a lot of spending due to the past excessive spending of the Democrat, vice versa for the Democrats. The cartoonist is unbiased so it's hard to tell of their political ideology. This cartoon relates to the current event that just passed. The House, whose majority is Republicans, offer a budget spending amount and then when it gets passed to the Senate, whose majority is Democrat, and the President, it gets turned down. Since they cannot come to an agreement, a government shut down where all federal jobs would stop getting pay, could occur.