President Trump, who say the Democrats, is the only Republican leader who can break the government’s state financing, has come out of the battle on the Capitol Hill and let the legislators be despondent in both parties until he has solemn conversations.
The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune (Rs.d), said on Friday that he would remain on his plan to force the Democrats of the Senate to continue to work on a seven -week employment to finance the government, but the measure has already failed four times and has little chance to achieve fresh support.
Thune relies on the fact that it is only a matter of time, up to eight Democrats for the house law and give it the 60 that it takes to achieve Trump’s desk, but this bet looks more and more like a long setting.
The democratic chairman of the Senate, Chuck Schumer (NY), says that every deal is located to reopen the government near Trump, not with Thune or spokesman Mike Johnson (R-La.).
“The conclusion is that we need the president to be involved. Johnson and many of his Caucus don’t like the ACA. Many Republican senators in the Senate do it, but they are not enough. Thun is not enough,” said Schumer and referred to the Affordable Care Act.
“You need Johnson and especially you need Donald Trump to do it,” he added. “We need real improvements in the health care of the Americans.”
Johnson said Cbs’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday “The house did his job” And recorded his plan to keep the chamber outside the session to escalate the pressure on the Senate to act.
He has expanded the house recess Until October 14th to underline his message to democratic senators who are the approval of the Finance Act with home fees for the termination of the shutdown.
The Speaker told House Republicans If you have a private call on Saturday, he would give you 48 hours if you had to return to the Capitol this week, but so far he has not shown any signs that you change in plan B. B.
Trump has kept away from the direct negotiation with Democrats, but tried to improve the political pressure from outside by threatening the mass decisions of federal workers and accusing Democrats of controlling hundreds of billions of federal health financing without constant legal status.
Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council of the White House, warned in an interview on Sunday with CNN that the federal government’s layoffs will start when Trump decides that the negotiations to reopen the government have become the sticks.
Trump can be under pressure to negotiate with Democrats if the switch -off over October 15 is exceeded, the date, at the members of the military due to the fight in Washington, will miss their first salary check.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY) on Sunday fell back to the claim that the Democrats illegally want to direct billions of dollars of health expenditure for immigrants in the country, which has become a top -gop topic of talk.
“The Federal Law clearly prohibits taxpayers’ expenses to ensure immigrants without papers. “And no democrat on the Capitol Hill tries to change this law.”
If the shutdown attracts longer than a month, the economic experts warn that this could have a negative impact on the economy.
All Sinai, the chief global economist from Decision Economies Inc. and a high-quality forecast, says that extended shutdown into the Fourth quarter would lower.
“It is a considerable risk of recession. It seems to like that about a million jobs are assessed or shed. I think the intention is to release it forever,” he said. “It is part of the economy.
“If it takes two weeks to one month, the real GDP forecast that I wear for the fourth quarter will be somewhat of 1 percent. And in the first quarter, when this goes beyond Christmas, my forecast is turned to a negative GDP,” he said about the economic effects of a switch -off dable, the weeks or months.
Sinai said that he is currently predicting GDP in the fourth quarter with a growth of 2.5 percent if the shutdown is quickly resolved.
Democrats have the feeling that they are more popular in the fight against the standstill after the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the helpers of the White House will discuss proposals to expand the extended subsidies for ACA insurance plans and do not want the Republicans to be held responsible for the course of the subsidies.
Democrats believe that the shutdown has made more attention in the topic, and they are firmly against a neat, continuous solution that the government would open again without extending the extended subsidies.
“We only asked to get to the table and have a discussion,” said Senator Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.).
Rosen denied promise from Thune and Johnson to discuss an extension of the health insurance premiums later this year.
“Why should we trust you?” she asked.
Rosen said that insurance companies started sending messages across the country for millions of families across the country last week and this week.
KFF, an impartial health policy and research group, published a survey with more 1,334 adults across the country on Friday, which shows that 59 percent of Republicans want to extend the extended tax credits.
Republican and democratic sources of the Senate say that Thune does not feel comfortable that Democrats do direct support for a financing contract without Trump’s.
They find that Trump has blown up a cross -party deal that the Senate GOP leader wanted to put together for more than 140 candidates from the Executive Branch in July and August.
Democrats say that every deal to reopen the government must include an extension of the extended health insurance premiums as part of the ACA, which should expire at the end of the year.
On Friday, Thune said that he could not agree and conclude a deal that would be acceptable for democratic leaders from the table.
“We can not enter into obligations or promises for the covid subsidies, since we cannot guarantee that there are voices there,” Thun told reporters.
Republican members of the Senate appropriation committee have turned to their democratic colleagues of the committee this week to achieve a deal that would enable eight democrats to vote for home fees for the reopening of the government.
They promised that the Democrats, if the continued resolutions had permitted to go to the house for conference, to negotiate a package of three invoices, finance agriculture, agriculture, veteran matters and legislative departments and also the laws for workers, health and human services – a top democratic priority – into the measurement of the Senates with the areas of the Senates Bring defense supporters.
And GOP senators promised to have a “dialogue” with Democrats to expand the extended insurance benefits.
A Republican senator who was informed about the talks said they were “very narrow” to achieve a deal to reopen the government.
But on Friday, Schumer dismissed the framework of a deal as unacceptable, since it did not consider the ACA supports that were running considerably.
Sarah Fortinsky and Max Rego contributed.