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The US government shutdown began on October 1, 2013, due to a budget impasse over funding for ObamaCare, which the US Supreme Court declared "unconstitutional" on June 28, 2012. The Senate, led by Harry Reid, rejected the House's efforts to pass a budget funding everything except ObamaCare, intending to "extort" money from Americans through the Affordable Health Care Act. ObamaCare originated in the Senate, violating the constitutional requirement that tax revenue bills must originate in the House. The Supreme Court's ruling attempted to reclassify ObamaCare as a "tax" to make it appear constitutional, but it remains "unconstitutional" in its current form, constituting the greatest theft of private property, freedom, and liberty in US history. The legal term "extortion" defines the government's actions, and victims are the individual states, private businesses, and citizens forced to comply with ObamaCare or face penalties. The Supreme Court's ruling highlighted that Congress did not pass ObamaCare through constitutional legislative processes, and the individual mandate and Medicaid expansion provisions are key to the case.