Little progress as US government shutdown looms

US President Donald Trump and democratic opponents seem to have made little progress at a White House meeting, which aims to close a government that can disrupt a wide range of services as soon as possible from the TIS Week.

If the Congress could not extend the government financing beyond its deadline at midnight on Tuesday, both sides said that the other would be wrong.

“I think we headed for a closure.” He said.

The Democrats insist that Trump’s republicans’ health and government financing should be considered as separate issues, while the democrats make any agreement to protect the expired health benefits.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said the two sides were “very big differences”.

If the congress does not move, thousands of federal government employees can be removed from NASA to national parks and a wide range of services are broken. Federal courts may need to be closed and grants may be postponed for small enterprises.

Budget postures have become relatively routine in Washington in the last 15 years and have been solved at the last minute. However, Trump’s desire to invalidate or ignore the laws of expenditure by the congress injected a new dimension of uncertainty.

Trump refused to spend billions of dollars approved by the congress and threatens to liquidate the federal labor force if the congress allowed the government to close. So far, only a handful of agencies have published plans that detail how to move in case of closure.

In the case of “optional” expenditures that finance agency operations, $ 1.7 trillion dollars (A2.6 trillion $), about one quarter of the government’s total $ 7 trillion (A11 trillion $) budget. Most of the rest of them go to the increasing $ 37.5 trillion dollars (A57.1 trillion $) to debt -related health and pension programs and interest payments.

According to democratic sources, the Democrats formed a plan to expand the current financing for seven to 10 days, which can buy time to make a more permanent agreement. This is shorter than the timeline supported by the Republicans who will finance until November 21st.

Since 1981, there have been 14 partial government closure, most of them remained only a few days. The last one lasted the longest and 35 days in 2018 and 2019 due to a dispute about migration in Trump’s first period.

This time there is health services. Approximately 24 million Americans, which are covered by the appropriate maintenance law, will see that their costs will increase if the congress does not expand their temporary tax cuts due to their expiry of their time at the end of 2025.

Hakeem Jeffries, the democratic leader of the Assembly, said the Congress should now make these tax cuts permanent because higher health insurance premiums are finalized and the new registration time begins on 1 November.

“We believe that it is unacceptable to accept the Republican plan to continue the attack and to continue health services,” Jeffries said at a press conference on Monday. He said.

Republicans say they are willing to take into account the problem, but that they are not part of a temporary expenditure patch.

“There were some ideas that I think was reasonable, and the president had some ideas that they thought were reasonable. The unauthorized thing is to keep these ideas as leverage and to close the government.” He said.

The Democrats want to give energy to the voting bases before the 2026 midterm elections, the control of the Congress will be in danger and when it is widely listed behind health services.

However, democratic helpers expressed their concerns that if the democrats do not effectively discuss their cases and instead of being against everything Trump, they could create a public reaction – a stance like Thunde mocked as “Trump Disorder Syndrome”.