国会通过议案 美国政府重开

Congratulations, America. You're no longer broke, just broken." That was a text of one tweet this morning after US Republicans and Democrats approved an 11th-hour deal to end the partial government shutdown and pull the world's biggest economy back from the brink of a potential debt default. In a moment, we ask what the effect of all that political wrangling might have on America's traditional role as a financial safe haven. But first, the BBC's Simon Jack is in New York and I asked him, "Had the world had a lucky escape?"

Yes, we have. Disaster averted. Armageddon is at least postponed. The government is funded till January 15th. Debt ceiling is raised till early February. So queue jubilation in the streets not quite as we found out when we got some immediate reaction to news of the deal from workers on Wall Street.

Tremendous worry concerned that it wasn't gonna be resolved, but some level of confidence said they wouldn't let it slip to the point where we'd hit the brink and have a, you know, disastrous market event. So we're gonna come out of it okay. And hopefully it lasts long enough that it's not just a short-term fix but something that will take us a little bit further into the future.

Everybody in this country is worried about it and everybody in this country is worried about what's happening over there in Washington. It's important to know that it's probably just another short-term solution; it's not something that will last a long-term impact. We might end up in the same place in a couple of months or a year or so. This is something that is getting worse and worse and worse and it's been getting worse for the last couple of years.