Donald Trump warns of ‘irreversible’ cuts
All of them would allow the US to enter the 15th government closure since 1981.
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Federal agencies, scientific research, customer service and other activities, and tens of thousands of workers will send home detailed plans to close the offices. Military units, border guards and others who were seen as “required” would remain at work, but would not get money until the congress was resolved.
In the notes of the employees who will disappear soon, many agencies, including the Ministry of Justice and the Social Security Administration, accused the democrats for the closure of the upcoming closure and violated long -term norms aimed at protecting government employees from partisan pressure. Budget reckoning became a routine feature in Washington, because the country’s politics has grown more and more dysfunctional, but often solved at the last minute.
Airlines warn that a closure can slow down flights, while the Ministry of Labor said that the monthly unemployment report would not publish an close -watched economic health barometer. The Environmental Protection Agency said that he would suspend some pollution cleaning efforts, and the small business administration said he would stop lending.
The longer a closure lasts, the wider the effect becomes.
The government was recently closed for 35 days in 2018 and 2019 in the first period of Trump due to dispute on migration. According to the non -Partisan Congress budget office, this has cost 3 billion dollars (4.5 billion dollars) to the US economy or 0.02 percent of GDP.
Trump’s threat of firing more federal workers or completely eliminating some programs can deepen chaos. Since he returned to office in January, he refused to spend billions of dollars authorized by the Congress and reduced federal payrolls by about 300,000 people.
“If there is a closure, he wants to take extra steps to punish the people of this country,” Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen from Maryland said.
Two workers’ unions representing the federal employees filed a lawsuit to prevent the massacre of agencies.
Trump’s actions pushed some democrats to question why they had to vote for any expenditure legislation.
Although the Republicans control both their rooms of the Congress, they need at least seven democratic voters to remove the legislation from the Senate.
The Democrats are under the pressure of their disappointed supporters to win a rare victory before the 2026 midterm elections, which will determine the control of the Congress for the last two years of Trump’s era.
The Republicans say they are open to a correction, but they accuse the democrats of keeping the budget of their hostages of their demands.
The Democrats said they believed they were moving with Trump after a White House meeting on Monday. However, hours later, the president released a deep mat video showing the manipulated images of democratic leaders who were taken to the cliché of the Mexicans.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries told journalists, saying, “Don’t break with a racist and fake AI video to say about me. When I go back to the oval office, tell my face.”
Reuters
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