What is the reason for the government shutting down? everyone is waiting for the House of representatives to make their budget but they aren't making one. The republicans do not like Obamacare, so they will not authorize the funding for the federal government. They are trying to make the democrats take away, or at least edit out what they dont like, out of obamacare. Democrats refuse to do anything to alter the bill, because they believe that it will lower the costs of the average americans coverage cost. so they are basically at a stalemate because neither side will do what the other side wants.
