The US capitol on October 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)
State officials from both parties asked the congress to avoid a government’s closure on Monday, although the Republicans crowded more challenging to extend the current financing.
Although they sometimes get into conflict with federal guidelines, the states for numerous programs are dependent on the financing of the federal government. A state closure that would have a broader effect than in recent years, since the congress has not passed any of the dozen annual financing calculations, would delay or cancel this support.
The National Governors Association gave a statement from its chairman and deputy chairman, the Republican governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt and the democratic governor of Maryland, Wes Moore and asked the congress to avoid closure. The cross -party group, which comprises all governors of the country, generally avoids commenting on controversial questions that share their membership.
“The consistent use of political Brinksmanship in terms of our state financing does not serve our states, territories or our people well,” they wrote. “For a long time it is to stop the can on the street and to return to regular debate and adopt a budget. At that time, the congress has the responsibility to ensure that the government is still in operation. We are asking the federal leaders to say goodbye to political games and to say goodbye to a budget that reflects the values and promise states.
While members of both parties express the desire to avoid shutdown, they proposed various solutions.
The Republicans urged the legislators to approve the “clean” resolution in order to keep the government at the current level, while the Democrats supported the position of their party in the congress in order to obtain an expansion of the health insurance subsidies in a financing law.
“As a result, the closure would be allowed and unnecessarily disturb our economies, endanger public security and undermine the public’s trust in our institutions,” wrote 25 Republican governors in a letter to the congress leaders on Monday. “Our families and communities would feel the pain with immediate effect and confusion.”
Partisan differences beyond switching off extend beyond the Beltway
The US house, in which the Republicans own a majority, has passed a Stopgap expenditure measure this month, but the 60-vote threshold, which is necessary for the adoption of the US Senate, could not delete a proposal that does not take into account the costs of health care.
At the state level, the debate has fallen in a similar way.
“Simply expressed, a closure of the government should not be used as a political lever to say goodbye to partisan reforms – these are not a chips to be negotiated with which the congress should be negotiated,” wrote the Republican governors. “The proposed budget extension is an uncomplicated, cross -party solution. There are no gimmicks or partisan poisoning pills; it is a clean, short -term financing measure that both parties have historically supported.”
The Attorney General of the Republican prosecutors sent a similar letter in which it was found that a shutdown would affect the state and local law enforcement authorities.
Democrats repeated Congress news across the country that the congress should extend the subsidies for health care that were included in the 2010 health law as an Affordable Care Act, and take more steps to reduce health care costs. The GOP would not blame the Republicans, Democrats said.
“Instead of supporting a plan that would reduce the costs and stopped health care, the Republicans of the Senate Donald Trump blindly follow and urge the country to devastate the government,” said Senator Kirsten Gillibrand from New York, chairman of the Senate Democrats campaign organization, in a statement on September 19.
In a press release last week, the Democratic Governors Association advertised the efforts of the members to expand subsidies.
“The governor of the DGA chairman Kansas, Laura Kelly, the governor of Delaware, Matt Meyer, and the governor of New Mexico, Michelle Lujan Grisham, asked the Republicans of the Congress to expand subsidies for critical affordable care laws, to which 22 million Americans are relying on and a state closure Avoid, “said the press release.
“Without the Republicans’ measures in the congress, the health costs for hard -working Americans who rely on these subsidies will fall over an average of over 75 percent.”
