On Thursday, October 17th, 2013 Obama finally signed a bill in order to end the current government shutdown. According to economic research firms the infamous government will cost the US billions of dollars. Studies have shown that the minority part in the senate (45/55) have been blamed by the majority of the American people for the entire government shutdown, while Obama's reputation was not nearly as damaged.The government has also further divided the Republican party within itself with the moderate Republicans on one side and the Tea Party Republicans on the other. If the Republican party continues to divide the Democrats will have a great advantage. While Obama insists that, "there were no winners...,"this in some ways is very untrue. The Republicans began the government shutdown in the hopes to end the Obama's healthcare law by lowering his budget. While the budget was lowered the healthcare law still lives. All in all the government shutdown wasn't very good for either party and had the greatest impact, when it negatively effect the economy making the government shutdown a terrible occurrence for all of the US.