The United States House of Representatives passed a text this Thursday postpones the risk of a partial paralysis of the state by a week federal in the middle of the election campaign.
The measure provides for an extension of the state budget until March 8th Avoid a temporary closure many administrations and public services.
This still needs to be voted on in the Senate, but that is purely a formality.
Representative Tom Cole, one of the leading Republicans responsible for appropriations, is hoping for the House of Representatives easily approve the preliminary plan.
He congress has already voted not to shut down (the government),” Cole said. “People want to keep working.”
The blockade came from the lower house of Congress. The hard core of Republicans, who are close to former President Donald Trump, have so far prevented approval of the state budget 2024, the financial year of which began on October 1st.
But the measure, known as a continuing resolution or “RC,” is already facing stiff opposition in the House and could require a majority vote from Democratic representatives to pass.
That could spell trouble for Johnson, who has come under pressure Hardline Republicans are using a shutdown as a basis for negotiations to force Democrats to accept conservative policy clauses.
We do what the Democrats want to get passed in the Senate and signed by the White House. And that is not a victory for the American people,” said Rep. Bob Good, chairman of the hardline House Freedom Caucus.
Passing the RC on Thursday would give the Senate less than two days to pass the measure and would require Schumer, the top Democrat in the country congressGet a deal from Senate Republicans circumvent a network of parliamentary rules and procedural hurdles that can take a week to clear.
Why the closure?
The first world economy works with a series of mini-laws which extend the state budget by a few days, weeks or months.
If these mini-budgets expire soon, there is a risk that the federal government will partially shut down, what Americans call a “shutdown.”
One of them expired this Friday. The list of possible consequences is long: Air traffic controllers no longer receive salariesAdministrations are closing, food aid is being frozen, among other things.
It is the fourth time since October that the deadline has been pushed back.
The mini-budget, once passed by Congress, It must be signed into law by President Joe Biden.
The President of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, walked a fine line between the demands of the most conservative like himself and those of the most moderate Republicans.
All but two Democrats voted for the resolution, but nine did7 Republicans voted against it.
Moderates see the shutdown as politically disastrous and threatening Republicans’ chances of retaining control of the House and retaking the Senate in November’s presidential election, but Trump supporters cast doubt on that.
With information from AFP.
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