The White House meeting on Monday with the best Republican and democratic congress leaders did not bring any budget breakthrough, with both parties trading in less than 36 hours before government funding.
The “big differences” remained between the two sides, the Supreme Democrat of the Senate Chuck Schumer told reporters after the last meeting after the hosted President Donald Trump.
Schumer, whose party is in the minority, said, “It depends on the Republicans whether they want or not,” added that Trump showed “some proposals”.
Meanwhile, Vice President JD accused the Democrats of putting a “weapon in the head of the American people” with the requirements for funding.
“I think we were heading to shut down because the Democrats wouldn’t do the right thing,” he said.
Without the Congress to submit a bill to finance federal operations before midnight on Tuesday evening, the government partially closed the trade – and plunges Washington into the new round of the political crisis.
Turn off would see how non -essential operations crushed to stop, hundreds of thousands of civil servants temporarily left without reward and the payout of many social security networks has been disrupted.
Such a outage is deeply unpopular in the United States, and the Democrats and Republicans seek to avoid the scenario – while accusing the second camp should be such closure.
But with barely 36 hours before the deadline, each side kicks the heels and the threat of the shutdown increased. The White House increases Ante by threatening to fire a large number of civil service workers, rather than the usual practice, simply raise his reward until the agreement is reached.
Republicans have proposed to expand the current financing to the end of November and are waiting for negotiations on a longer -term expenditure plan.
However, the Democrats, largely helpless and winding from Trump’s disassembly of the entire government department, are trying to use its rare leverage.
Republicans hold the narrow majority in both chambers of Congress, but the Senate rules require budget accounts to receive 60 votes out of 100 to continue – which means that they must affect at least 7 democrats.
The Democrats want to see hundreds of billions of dollars from renewed health care expenditures, especially in the Obamacare health insurance program for low -income households that Trump Administration plans to eliminate through its so -called “large, beautiful” budget law, which approved in July.
They also want to block Trump and Republicans from a later reduction in approved funds through the so-called “Recise” process-kirty requires only a simple majority-what it was in the summer.
“In the end he is the creator of the decision,” Schumer said about Trump. “And if he accepts some of the things we have asked – what we think is Americans, in health care and rescue – can avoid turning off, but there are still big differences between us.”
The house has already undergone a short -term extension of financing and the Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson tried to force the hands of the Senate democrats by not returning back to Washington this week.
Johnson spoke alongside Vance and the Senate Republican leader John Thun, on Monday accused the democrats of “attempt to bring foreign questions” instead of accepting a “clean” proposal to expand the financing.
“If the Democrats decide to close the government, there are consequences and I think it is absolutely tragic,” he said.
Congress has disappeared regularly to date to agree on the spending plans.
In March, with the threat of being closer, the Republicans refused to engage in dialogue with democrats over massive budget cuts and the permission of thousands of federal employees.
At that time, 10 Democrats of the Senate, including Schumer, reluctantly voted for this Republican measure to stop to avoid shutdown. Their decisions, however, angry the base of the party, which calls on a democratic leader to stand up to Trump.
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