Senate stalemate sends US government shutdown into second week
For the fourth time the US senators did not pass the spending offers to reopen the federal government and extended the ongoing closure to next week.
One of the democrats and the other from the Republicans – two separate expenditures did not reach the necessary 60 votes.
When both sides are locked, the White House on Friday, the press secretary Karoline Leavitt’in “financial mental health” defined as the closure continues, basic government services will be left with the “inevitable task” of maintaining the activity, he said.
The scope of these potential layoffs remains uncertain, but the White House meets the administration and budget or OMB office.
Both Republican and Democratic MPs dug them in their heels at the point of dispute: Health Services. The Democrats hope to benefit from the dead end to ensure that the period of health insurance subsidies for low -income ones, the Trump administration’s interruptions in the Medicaid Health Program does not expire and reverse.
The Republicans have repeatedly accused them of closing the government with an accusation refused by democratic leaders in order to provide health services to their immigrants in their name.
A total of 54 senators voted in favor of a Republican -led proposal to finance the government against 44 and two of them.
A separate, democratic proposal failed, 45 votes and against 52.
Both sides continued to blame the other for closing with very few signs of any progress in negotiations.
“We can vote, vote,” Missouri republican senator Josh Hawley said, “We can vote, vote.” “But basically it is up to five people.”
During a news briefing in the White House, the press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the Democrats of keeping the Americans “hostage of their demands”.
“The economic consequences of this closure accumulate every day.”
The White House officials promised to leave the federal workers if the closure continued, and at the beginning of this week, President Donald Trump said that he would meet with Russell Vought, who was the president of the OMB, and “which of many democratic agencies” should examine.
The White House did not provide any scope or timeline for any potential dismissal or deductions of the agencies. Leavitt said that most of these deductions will come from agencies that “this administration” is not compatible with the values of putting our country in the first place “.
As part of the federal government’s response to the closure, Vought was suspended in federal infrastructure financing in New York on federal infrastructure financing in federal infrastructure financing and in addition to the cancellation of about $ 8 billion federal funds for federal energy projects in some democratic states.
On the Senate floor, minority leader Chuck Schumer said that the democrats were fighting the health issue because “We know that the Americans want it.”
“And we know that most of my colleagues want it,” he said. “But it would be destructive not to take action, and the Republicans know it.”
Some democrats, including New York Senator Richard Blumenthal and Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, said they wanted to hear directly from the President.
They referred to a two -party border bill, which the president ultimately rejected last year, said that they were afraid that the negotiations with the Senate Republicans could ultimately contradict Trump.
The first surveys argued that the Americans were deeply divided into closure, a post -Washington questionnaire on October 1, 47% of US adults blamed the Republicans and carried out 30% accusing the democrats.
Another 23% said they were not sure.
(With additional reports of Cai Pigliucci in Capitol Hill)
