Then again, it’s not like it’s his signature piece of legislation.

Washington (AFP) – The US Congress must stop stumbling from crisis to crisis and join together to create jobs and get things done, President Barack Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

Speaking just two days after Congress reached an 11th-hour accord to end a 16-day government shutdown and avert a debt default by extending the Treasury’s authority to borrow money, the president said lawmakers have little to be proud of.

“At a time when our economy needs more growth and more jobs, the manufactured crises of these last few weeks actually harmed jobs and growth,” he said.

Economists say the shutdown cost the economy billions as furloughed workers cut back on spending and tourism was sapped, among other effects.

And the provisions of the last-gasp bill already have raised fears that another round of Washington-style brinkmanship and dysfunction may not be far off.

The compromise plan hashed out in the Senate and passed by the House funds government only until January 15 and extends US borrowing authority until February 7.