The US president Barack Obama has said that he does not expect republicans to allow the government to default.
He said that expects that congress will raise the debt ceiling before the 17 October deadline.
Mr Obama said he does not expect to have to take any unusual steps to prevent the US from defaulting on its debt.
"I don't expect to get there," Mr Obama said in an interview with the Associated Press.
He said: "There were at least some quotes yesterday that (House of Representatives) Speaker (John) Boehner is willing to make sure that we don't default," he said.
"And I'm pretty willing to bet that there are enough votes in the House of Representatives right now to make sure that the United States doesn't end up being a deadbeat," Mr Obama said.
Elsewhere, the Republican-led US House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill that would retroactively pay 800,000 furloughed workers.
This will arise once the now 5-day-old government shutdown ends.
The measure will now goes to the Democratic-led Senate for concurrence.
The White House has said that President Obama will sign it into law.
There is no end in sight to the shutdown, and there are still no bipartisan negotiations.
Meanwhile, the US is postponing negotiations for a landmark free trade deal with the EU.
The postponement is because of the partial shutdown of the US government, the administration has said.
US Trade Representative Michael Froman called the EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht to say that US officials could not travel to Brussels next week for talks due to the shutdown.
That is according to a statement from Mr Froman's office, known as the USTR.
Whole swaths of America's federal government have been shutdown since last Tuesday morning due to an impasse in Congress over funding for the new fiscal year.
"USTR will work with the (European) Commission to craft an alternative work plan that can begin once the US government shutdown ends," the agency said.
Washington and the EU were due to hold a second round of negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which would be the world's biggest free trade deal.
The US and the EU already are the world's largest trade and investment partners but are struggling with high unemployment, particularly in Europe.
They hope to create jobs on both sides of the Atlantic by striking a deal to eliminate remaining tariffs on their goods and to reduce regulatory barriers to trade.
Mr De Gucht said in a statement that the cancellation of the meetings "in no way distracts us from our overall aim of achieving an ambitious trade and investment deal."
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