Washington (AP) – The risk of state closure has become a recurring event in Washington, although most of the time the legislators and the president are able to derive it. This time, however, prospects for a compromise at the last minute look rather shadowy.
The Republicans have created a low -term measure to finance the government by November 21, but Democrats have insisted that the measure takes their concerns about health care. You want to reverse the MEDICAID cuts in the Mega-Bill of President Donald Trump this summer and extend the health insurance premiums for millions that acquire the marketplaces defined by the Affordable Care Act. Republicans say that is all a non -starter.
No side shows signs of rationing, although the house will not even be at the session in the session before production began.
Here you can see how a shutdown would occur.
What happens in a shutdown?
If there is a loss of financing, the authorities have to hire the activities and hire their “non -unspeakable” employees. Excluded employees are those who carry out work to protect life and property. They stay at work, but are only paid for after the end of the closing.
During the 35-day participation in Trump’s first term, around 340,000 of the 800,000 federal employees of the affected agencies were assessed. The rest was “except” and required to work.
What government work continues during a closure?
Actually a lot.
FBI investigators, CIA officials, air traffic controls and agents who occupy the airport control points continue to work. So also members of the armed forces.
The programs that rely on mandatory expenses generally continue during a shutdown. Social security controls continue to go out. Seniors who rely on Medicare can still see their doctor, and health service providers can continue to submit and reimburse payment claims.
The veteran health supply continues during a shutdown. VA Medical Centers and outpatient clinics will be open and the VA advantages will continue to be processed and delivered. The burials are continued at the VA national cemeteries.
Will the ongoing federal workers be paid?
Yes, but only until the shutdown is over.
The congress acted in the past after shutting down to pay federal employees for the days they were free, although there were no guarantees that this would. In 2019, however, the Congress passed a legislative template that entered the legal department that the holiday employees were paid retrospectively after using the operation.
While they are finally paid, the holiday workers and those who stay in the workplace may have to do without one or more of their regular salary checks, depending on how long the closure lasts, which causes financial burdens for many families.
Service members would be recovered for missed salary checks as soon as federal financing is resumed.
Do I still get mail?
Yes, the US mail service is not affected by a state closure. The US mail service is an independent company that is financed by selling its products and services and not by tax money.
What concludes during a shutdown?
All administrations receive scope to choose which services should be freezed and which should be maintained in a shutdown.
The first Trump administration was working on stumping the effects of the longest part of the country’s participation in 2018 and 2019. In the selective reopening of offices, however, experts saw the willingness to cut corners, scrap the previous plans and into a legally dubious area to alleviate the pain.
Each federal authority develops its own shutdown plan, which in the past was accessible to the public website of the office for management and budget. So far, these plans have not been published. In the plans, the agency’s workers will remain at the workplace during a government closure and which are relieved.
In a provocative step, the White House office’s office threatened the mass firing of federal workers in the event of a shutdown. In an omb memo published on Wednesday, the programs that have not received funding from Trump’s Mega-Bill this summer would bear the main burden of closing.
The agencies should consider issuing information on reducing the Force for those programs whose financing runs on October 1, which have no alternative sources of financing and “do not match the president’s priorities,” the memo said.
That would be a much more aggressive step than in earlier than the current federal employees returned to their work as soon as the congress approved state expenditure. A violation of violence would not only dismiss the employees, but would also remove their positions, which would trigger a further massive upheaval in a federal assistant, which was already exposed to great cuts this year due to the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency and elsewhere in the Trump management.
Deputy practices in the past
Many shutdown plans submitted during the Biden administration are publicly available, and you can find some plans on websites of the individual agencies that provide an indication of previous precedent that the Trump administration could lead.
Here are some extracts from these plans:
– Education department: “A lengthy delay in the departmental obligations and payments over a week would limit the cash flow to school districts, universities and universities, professional rehabilitation authorities and other companies that depend on the department’s discretion funds to support their services.”
-National Park Service: As a rule, it is locked up for the duration of the financing period if an institution or an area is inaccessible in non -business hours. In parks in which it is impractical or impossible to limit public access, the staff varies depending on the park. “In general, where parks have accessible parking areas, including parking streets, appearance, because of, campsites and open-air monuments, these areas remain physically open to the public.”
– Transport: According to an update on March 25, the setting of air traffic controls and field training would stop checking of background reviews and air traffic.
– Smithsonian Institution: “The National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute of Smithsonian, like all Smithsonian Museums, receives federal funding. So during a government reinforcement of the Zoo – and the rest of the Smithsonian Museums – must be close to the public near the public.”
-Food and Drug Administration: “Work to protect animal health would be narrow and can only address impending threats to human life. Efforts to food safety would also be reduced to emergency reactions, since most of its financing is due to appropriations.
